#andre malraux

[askyea-poesy]

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Andre Malraux

[innocent-but-guilty]

[victusinveritas]

"An exception was Malraux who regarded Lawrence as a role model, the intellectual-cum-man-of-action and the romantic, enigmatic hero." [Source: Wikipedia]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

André Malraux. Alex Michaelides. Jane Smiley. Horace Mann. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Joseph Brodsky. James Baldwin. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Alphonse de Lamartine. Alfred De Musset. Isaac Asimov. Gustave Flaubert.

[the-night-picture-collector]

Maurice Jarnoux, André Malraux selecting Photographs for the Imaginary Museum, 1947

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Photo: Cecil Beaton)

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“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.” André Malraux, "Anti-Memoirs"

[Follies Of God]

[postersbykeith]

[theshatterednotes]

André Malraux, French author and Minister of Cultural Affairs during Charles de Gaulles presidency. Here photographed by Gisèle Freund.