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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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