Andre Malraux

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

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.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

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