André Malraux - Man's Fate (1933)

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If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

André Malraux

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.

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

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"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.

André Malraux

The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

André Malraux