Andre Malraux Quotes - Famous Quotes by Andre Malraux
Born: 1901-11-03
Died: 1976-11-23
Andre Malraux Biography
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
- Andre Malraux
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
- Andre Malraux
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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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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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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 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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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