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André Malraux
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Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition.
— Picasso's Mask (1976)
André Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
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Lived 1901–1976, aged 75France
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He wrote novels about revolution, then lived one — flying for the Spanish Republic, running guns, walking into the Resistance. Later he traded the barricades for a ministry and spent a decade remaking France's cultural landscape under de Gaulle.
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André Malraux published La Condition Humaine in 1933, a novel set during the 1927 Shanghai uprising that won the Prix Goncourt. The Spanish Civil War pulled him from the page into the cockpit; L'Espoir came from that fight in 1937. He joined the French Resistance during the Second World War, survived, and emerged into politics. De Gaulle named him information minister in 1945, then brought him back as France's first cultural affairs minister from 1959 to 1969. After the war he left fiction behind and turned to art history, gathering his thinking in La Psychologie de l'Art, published in 1953 as…
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André Malraux
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On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.
— André Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975.
André Malraux
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What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Antimémoires, preface (1967)
André Malraux
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No one can endure his own solitude.
— Author's commentary, serialized version of La condition humaine in the Nouvelle revue française (1933)
André Malraux
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If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
— La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
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