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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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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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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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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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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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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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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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