Quotes from Andre Malraux

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 abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

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

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

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