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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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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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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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