Andre Malraux

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The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

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Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.

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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 nothingness.

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Malraux, Andre. Les Noyers de l'Altenburg [The Walnut Trees of Altenburg]. Gallimard, c. 1948.

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The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

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Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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