Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux
André Malraux DSOwas a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humainewon the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Informationand subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 November 1901
CountryFrance
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.