Andre' Malraux (November 3, 1901-November 23, 1976) was a French novelist and essayist. He was involved in the civil strife in China in the 1920's, the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance during World War II, being captured twice by the Nazi's.
He served as minister of information, 1945-46; and minister of cultural affairs, 1959-69, under President Charles de Gaulle.
His works include: The Temptation of the West, 1926; The Conquerors; The Human Condition; The Royal Way; Man's Fate, 1933; Man's Hope, 1937; Voices of Silence, 1951; and Museum without Walls, 1967.
In his volume of memoirs, titled Anti-Memoirs, 1967, Andre' Malraux declared:
<The genius of Christianity is to have proclaimed that the path to the deepest mystery is the path of love.> 1901AM001
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1901AM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Andre' Malraux, 1967, Anti-Memoirs, sec. 6. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 853.