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.

Quote by Andre Malraux

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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

An art book is a museum without walls.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by...

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by...

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves - is what I call hell

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves - is what I call hell

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Art is a revolt against fate.

Art is a revolt against fate.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.