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Andre Malraux [1901-1976] French

Rank: 102
Author, Novelist

André Malraux DSO was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine won the Prix Goncourt.

Art, Business, Courage, Failure, History, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.		101
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.		102
An art book is a museum without walls.	Art	103
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.	Business	104
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 time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.	History, Truth	105
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.	Courage, Failure	106
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.	Art	107
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.		108
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.		109
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.		110
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.		111
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.		112
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.		113
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.		114
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.		115
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.		116
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.		117
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.		118
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.		119

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