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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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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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