The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

—Andre Malraux

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More quotations from Andre Malraux

An art book is a museum without walls.

—Andre Malraux

Be careful—with quotations, you can damn anything.

—Andre Malraux

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone—even to himself.

—Andre Malraux

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

—Andre Malraux

More quotations tagged with “stars”

Reach for the stars.

—Christa McAuliffe

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I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

—Edward Young

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

—Walt Whitman

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8 Jan 2014 Added