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Andre Malraux
French
Author
About the author
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.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Love
#First
#Duty
#Leader
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#War
#Peace
#Questions
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.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Want
#Now
#May
#Painting
#Listening
#Evening
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Nothing
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Woman
#Islam
#Opium
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.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Time
#Love
#End
#History
#Truth
#Despair
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.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Universe
#Painting
#Order
#Artist
#Discovery
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Hell
#Force
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Nothing
#Suffering
#Opium
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 Malraux,
French
Author
#Successful
#Failure
#Ideas
#Risk
#Act
#Difference
#Courage
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.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#War
#Fighting
#Revolution
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Man
#Destiny
#Faces
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Man
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#World
#Genius
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#World
#Man
#Wishes
An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Art
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Style
#May
#Age
#Music
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Art
#Man
#Fate
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Democracy
#Communism
Art is a revolt against fate.
Andre Malraux,
French
Author
#Art
#Fate