André Malraux Quote

"Why do you fight?"... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing. If he had had money, if he could have left it to them, he would have been free to go and get killed. As if the universe had not treated him all his life with kicks in the belly, it now despoiled him of the only dignity he could ever possess — his death.


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


Why do you fight?... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing. If he had had money, if he could have left it to...

Why do you fight?... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing. If he had had money, if he could have left it to...

Why do you fight?... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing. If he had had money, if he could have left it to...

Why do you fight?... He kept his wife, his kid, from dying. That was nothing. Less than nothing. If he had had money, if he could have left it to...