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Men Quotes by Andre Malraux
- And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
- All art is a revolt against man's fate.
- Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
- One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
- A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
- The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
- Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a…
- Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to…
- The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
- Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
- Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
- What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
- 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…
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