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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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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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