André Malraux Quote

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.


La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)


The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from...