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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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 twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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