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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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Georges-André Malraux
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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 basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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 artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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