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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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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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