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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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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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