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 own nothingness.
André MalrauxHis [Francisco Goya's] debt to the Christianity of the eighteenth century is contained in the idea that politics was just adopting from the Gospels: the conviction that man has a right to justice. Such a statement would seem utterly conceited to a Roman, who would doubtless have looked upon the Disasters as we look upon photographs of the amphitheatre...But if Goya thought that man has not come onto the earth to be cut to pieces he thought that he must have come here for something. Is it to live in joy and honour? Not only that; it is to come to terms with the world. And the message he never ceased to preach, a message underlined by war, is that man only comes to terms with the world by blinding himself with childishness.
André MalrauxWhat is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
André MalrauxStichwörter: misanthropy
The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.
André MalrauxStichwörter: catastrophism
Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
André MalrauxStichwörter: quotations
I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.
André MalrauxThe greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
André MalrauxI don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
André MalrauxL'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.
Stichwörter: friendship
In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.
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