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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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

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

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 are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

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...

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought,...

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought,...

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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...

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.

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....

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

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

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

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...

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.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know...

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know...

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.