Quotes from Romain Gary

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.