Andre Malraux Quotes


An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.


Citations

Malraux, André. The Voices of Silence. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Doubleday, 1953.

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Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux
  • Born: November 3, 1901
  • Died: November 23, 1976
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Author, Statesman

Georges André Malraux DSO was a French novelist, art theorist, and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–1969).