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19 quotes by Andre Malraux

French literature by category French literary history Medieval Renaissance 17th 18th 19th 20th century Contemporary French writers Chronological list Writers by category Essayists Novelists Playwrights Poets Short story writers Portals France French language Literature French/Francophone literature v t e André Malraux DSO (French: [ɑ dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for...
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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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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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... →

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An art book is a museum without walls.

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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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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... →

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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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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 crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

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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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