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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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