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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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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 we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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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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