André Malraux was a French author, adventurer and statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture.
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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.”
Andre Malraux
“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved”
“The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten”
“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
“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 nothingness”
“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”
“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets”
“An art book is a museum without walls.”
“And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.”
“Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted”