André Malraux QUOTES

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

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

― André Malraux

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

― André Malraux

4 " 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. "

― André Malraux

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

― André Malraux

6 " What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. "

― André Malraux

7 " But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself.
-- Pablo Picasso "

― André Malraux , Picasso's Mask

8 " On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire. "

― André Malraux , L'Espoir

9 " The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness. "

― André Malraux

10 " I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. "

― André Malraux

11 " In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it. "

― André Malraux

12 " In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others. "

― André Malraux

13 " ...For that matter, men are perhaps indifferent to power.... What fascinates them in this idea, you see, is not real power, it's the illusion of being able to do exactly as they please. The king's power is the power to govern, isn't it? But man has no urge to govern--he has an urge to compel, as you said. To be more than a man, in a world of men. To escape man's fate, I was saying. Not powerful--all-powerful. The visionary disease, of which the will to power is only the intellectual justification, is the will to god-head--every man dreams of being god. "

― André Malraux , Man's Fate

14 " 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. "

― André Malraux

15 " L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

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― André Malraux

16 " An art book is a museum without walls. "

― André Malraux

17 " La vérité d’un homme c’est d’abord ce qu’il cache. "

― André Malraux , Anti-Memoirs

18 " I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash. "

― André Malraux

19 " Les idées ne sont pas faites pour être pensées mais vécues. "

― André Malraux

20 " Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie. "

― André Malraux , The Conquerors

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