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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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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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