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André Malraux quotes

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“The freedom you allow me is your freedom. The freedom to do what pleases you. Freedom is not an exchange—it is freedom.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“Don't you consider it a stupidity characteristic of the human race that a man who has only one life should be willing to lose it for an idea?” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“It's not through obedience that men go out of their way to get killed—nor through obedience that they kill. … Except cowards.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“each of us knows only his own unhappiness.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“all that men are willing to die for, beyond self-interest, tends more or less obscurely to justify that fate by giving it a foundation in dignity: Christianity for the slave, the nation for the citizen, Communism for the worker.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“to make oneself loved without courting popularity is one of the finest careers a man can hope for.” André Malraux, Man's Hope

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