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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
ANDRé MALRAUX The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
ANDRé MALRAUX Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRé MALRAUX There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
ANDRé MALRAUX

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
ANDRE MALRAUX

An art book is a museum without walls.
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What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion o...
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. The...
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuri...
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'p...
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
ANDRE MALRAUX

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

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without ...
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
ANDRE MALRAUX

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of...
ANDRE MALRAUX

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
ANDRE MALRAUX

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to wh...
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor wa...
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist ha...
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself...
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
ANDRE MALRAUX

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of...
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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The total sacrifice to a cause beyond his comprehension restored a richness to man
ANDRE MALRAUX

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to t...
ANDRE MALRAUX

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only
ANDRE MALRAUX

Be careful, - with quotations you can damn anything
ANDRE MALRAUX

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

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
ANDRE MALRAUX

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
ANDRE MALRAUX

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

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolutio...
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves - is what I call hell
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There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by th...
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRé GIDE

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances...
ANDRé GIDE

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
ANDRé GIDE

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
ANDRé BRETON

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRé GIDE

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRé GIDE The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my ...
ANDRé BRINK To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touc...
ANDRé ACIMAN

I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and f...
ANDRé BJERKE The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
ANDRé BAZIN How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn...
ANDRé ACIMAN

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
ANDRé BRETON

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so co...
ANDRé BRETON

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...
ANDRé GIDE In love, no question is ever preposterous.
ANDRé BRINK

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRé GIDE Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben...
MARTINA ANDRé We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking eco...
ANDRé GLUCKSMANN In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRé MAUROIS

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
ANDRé BRETON The index, however, remains well below the peak of 60 reached in July last year.
ANDRé ROUX We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't f...
ANDRé ACIMAN It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass ...
ANDRé ACIMAN

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...
ANDRé BRETON The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie...
ANDRé MAUROIS My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where mea...
ANDRé BRINK

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRé GIDE

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
ANDRé BRETON We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk...
ANDRé BERTHIAUME The manufacturing sector may be benefiting from the re-acceleration in global industrial production ...
ANDRé ROUX On balance, purchasing managers remain hesitant in the current manufacturing business climate.
ANDRé ROUX This confirms that manufacturing conditions are under pressure.
ANDRé ROUX This indicates that manufacturing activity picked up somewhat in December following the slowdown in ...
ANDRé ROUX Honestly, do we ask Jean Charest where he bought his pot from? If the person who sold him pot had li...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
ANDRé BRETON

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRé GIDE The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX I accept with humility and with great enthusiasm the mandate you have given me.
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE Mrs. Jean was not participating in a private event. Mrs. Jean was participating in a public event, t...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
ANDRé BRETON

The imaginary is what tends to become real.
ANDRé BRETON

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
ANDRé BRETON

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE

I am the soul in limbo.
ANDRé BRETON

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRé GIDE

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRé GIDE Our bodies won't have secrets now.
ANDRé ACIMAN

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRé GIDE

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
ANDRé GIDE

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not be...
ANDRé GIDE

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRé GIDE

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRé GIDE

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
ANDRé GIDE

Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRé GIDE

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
ANDRé GIDE

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE

The color of truth is grey.
ANDRé GIDE

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...
ANDRé GIDE

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRé GIDE

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life...
ANDRé GIDE

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout ri...
ANDRé GIDE

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
ANDRé GIDE

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRé GIDE

Dare to be yourself
ANDRé GIDE

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRé GIDE

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
ANDRé GIDE I've never had problems of consumption. I have never been in a situation where I was under the influ...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...
ANDRé GIDE

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...
ANDRé BRETON People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are...
ANDRé ACIMAN

I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi...
ANDRé GIDE

I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak...
ANDRé GIDE

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not ...
ANDRé GIDE I think everyone is wounded in their sex,” I said. “I can’t think of one person who isn’t.
ANDRé ACIMAN

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
ANDRé BRETON

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immedi...
ANDRé BRETON

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...
ANDRé BRETON

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo
Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.
ANDRé BRETON Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where ...
ANDRé ACIMAN Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared f...
ANDRé ALEXIS Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRé MAUROIS Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog...
ANDRé ACIMAN They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after h...
ANDRé ACIMAN The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), ...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once under...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé Ilusão - Só aqueles que conseguem ver atraves dela poderá criar a sua propria.
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA Illusion - Only those who can see through her can create his own
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w...
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be a...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK AND BARRY K. GILLS

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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