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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

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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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Politician
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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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