Quotes by André Malraux

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Novelist, art theorist, and statesman · French · 1901–1976

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

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“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”

Common Themes

“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

Courage Risk Successful

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

— Andre Malraux

Man Fate Against

“The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”

— Andre Malraux

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“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”

— Andre Malraux

risks

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Andre Malraux

Nothing Serve More

“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

Win Revolution Doing

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”

— André Malraux

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“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

— André Malraux

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

— André Malraux

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“The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”

— Andre Malraux

patriotism nationalism

“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”

— Andre Malraux

risks