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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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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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