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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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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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.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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