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is made know unto all-in the course of liberty, and in the field of the Immortals in Art. let uss, thereby, liftt all that we know of hte adventure that is Life to a new quality of greatness in the memory and the spoken utterance of your name: Malraux! Once you stood at the grand monuments of the City of Pariss - your city, - capital of Western enlight enment, - and invoked the tribute to another of its spiritual citizens, "Corbri", the martyrs of the Liberation of Paris you celebrated; and now you pass too, out of view, to join them. I sit heree without public ceremony to salute you, as I write this, in the public ceremony of my heart, where entered, your name, Friend, becomes one with all those things, persons, places, experiences - that transcend: that live ever with the good, the true and the beautiful of this world. "Songez, mon Cher ami, que eloez nores, il n'est pas a homme qui n'ait conquis l'Europe. Andre Malraux in La Tentattion del'Occident |
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