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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

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

If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

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

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor wa...

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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...

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The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a communit...

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André Malraux

Novelist

Born: 1901-11-03

Died: 1976-11-23

André Georges Malraux (November 3 1901 – November 23, 1976) was a French novelist, adventurer, art historian and statesman. He served as Minister for Cultural Affairs from 1958 to 1969.More