Andre Malraux Quotes

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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An art book is a museum without walls.

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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 is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

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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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