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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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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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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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