To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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.
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Birth: | 3rd November, 1901 |
Death: | 23rd November, 1976 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Novelist, Politician, Theorist |
André Malraux was born in Paris. He was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency. Malraux's first published work, an article entitled "The Origins of Cubist Poetry", appeared in the magazine Action in 1920.
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