André Malraux

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

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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 create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it—whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

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Art is a revolt against fate.

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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love.

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

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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The truth about a man is, first of all, what it is that he keeps hidden.

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La condition humaine.

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L’art est un anti-destin.

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