Andre Malraux Quotes

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

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  Men, Thinking, Secret

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• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

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  Art, Freedom, Genius

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• The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

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  Lying, Men, Firsts

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

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  Dream, Long

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• The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

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  Spiritual, Twenties, Firsts

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• In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

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  Destiny, Men, Important

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• To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

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  Aquariums, Looks, Fishes

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• If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

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  Art, Works Of Art, Ifs

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• What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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  Men, Keeping Secrets, Littles

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

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  Children, Enemy, Arguing

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• 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 be less enslaved

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  Art, Men, Culture

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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  Leadership, Military, Vision

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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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  Islam, Needs, West

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• The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

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  Things In Life, Important, Life Is

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• There's no such thing as a grown up person.

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  Nature, Persons

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

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  Stars, Powerful, Self

  "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.

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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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  Believe, Leader, Political

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• The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

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  Art, World, Metamorphosis

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• The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

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  Men, Civilization, Machines

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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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  Life, Long, Fool

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• Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

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  Thinking, People, Harder

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• The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

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  Destiny, Life And Death, Terrible

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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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  Inspirational, Leader, Firsts

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• The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

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  Religious, Tasks, Next

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