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Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom.

— André Malraux La condition humaine [Man's Fate (1933)

La liberté n'est pas un échange, c'est la liberté.

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

La condition humaine [Man's Fate (1933)

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence (1951)

The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances.

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence (1951)

The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety.

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