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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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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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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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