André Malraux was a French author, adventurer and statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture.
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“Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.”
Andre Malraux
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves - is what I call hell”
“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”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
“Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.”
“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only”
“The total sacrifice to a cause beyond his comprehension restored a richness to man”
“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.”
“Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.”
“There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.”