An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves - is what I call hell
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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
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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