Andre Malraux

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. ”

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. ”

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ”

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. ”

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. ”

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. ”

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

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. ”