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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
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France
Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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