French - Author | November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
PeaceWarQuestionsPuts
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
ManWorldWishesHumanMadeKnows
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
WomanIslamNeedAlwaysChinaWest
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.
WarWinRevolutionFightingDoing
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
HellHumanForceCallHuman Beings
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
MusicAgeStyleAlwaysMayBeen
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
PaintingUniverseArtistDiscovery
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