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Andre Malraux Quotes

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.
Andre Malraux

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Author Quotes
Category:
French Author Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 3, 1901
Date of Death:
November 23, 1976
Nationality:
French
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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.
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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which...
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To the humblest among them, who...
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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