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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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