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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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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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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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