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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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