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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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