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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
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
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France
Georges-André Malraux
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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