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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
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Journalist
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Politician
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Georges-André Malraux
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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