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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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 world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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