André Malraux Quotes

“to make oneself loved without courting popularity is one of the finest careers a man can hope for.”

― André Malraux, Man's Hope

topic:love

“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

topic:death stupidity

“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

topic:freedom self

“each of us knows only his own unhappiness.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

topic:self

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

topic:reality suffering

“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

topic:cowardice killing obedience

“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

topic:risk

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