Andre Malraux Quotes
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even…
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman…
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created…
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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