Andre Malraux Quotes
Andre Malraux Quotes
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Art is a revolt against fate.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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 to himself.
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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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