Andre Malraux Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.”
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“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
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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.”
-- Andre MalrauxSource : Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson
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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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“The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.”
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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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“To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.”
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“And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.”
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“The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.”
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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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“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
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“In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.”
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“Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.”
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“If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”
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“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”
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“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.”
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“There's no such thing as a grown up person.”
-- Andre MalrauxSource : ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”
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“If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.”
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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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“The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”
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“You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.”
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“In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.”
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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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“There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.”
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“The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.”
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“Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.”
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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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