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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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