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

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An art book is a museum without walls.

—Andre Malraux

Be careful—with quotations, you can damn anything.

—Andre Malraux

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

—Andre Malraux

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 tagged with “duty”

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

—Albert Einstein

We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

—Albert Camus

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.

—Robert Schumann

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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.