Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
From Andre Malraux
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
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.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
An art book is a museum without walls.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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