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There's no such thing as a grown up person.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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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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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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 next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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