Quotes from Romain Gary

v?n chÆ°Æ¡ng là nÆ¡i nÆ°Æ¡ng tá»±a cu?i cùng trên cõi ??i cho nh?ng ai không bi?t náu mình vào Ä'âu n?a

but just remember that men have never had more need of company than they have today. That fellow Morel said it straight out, in his famous petition. We need all the dogs, all the cats, and all the birds, and all the elephants we can find...

A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.

I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.

Perhaps, there was something missing in me, a lack of empathy without which even love and happiness are merely a part of that struggle toward championship.

Le plus grand effort de ma vie a toujours été de parvenir à désespérer complètement. Il n'y a rien à faire. Il y a toujours en moi quelque chose qui continue à sourire.

To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one's own. True living is done in pairs.

J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.

Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything's conceived, precisely, to avoid the intrusion of human error.

She must have said to herself that one can always rely on a gentleman when it's a question of not understanding a woman.

Humor is a silent and polite dynamite which enables you to blow your own way of life sky-high every time you have had enough of it, yet with the maximum discretion and without making a mess.

L'ironia è una dichiarazione di dignità. È l'affermazione della superiorità dell'essere umano su quello che gli capita.

My hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty, inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time was abetted by Laura's complicity.

Besides, there's nothing like the truth to make a convincing lie.

Seul l'Océan dispose des moyens vocaux qu'il faut pour parler au nom de l'homme.

After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn't have to be very intelligent: it's enough to have suffered.

I was angry at her, so angry — there is no greater weakness than to be in love with someone, to be at the mercy of it.

elle avait des yeux où il faisait si bon vivre que je n'ai jamais su où aller depuis.

Šiaip ar taip, ? nevilt? nepuoliau. Ir dabar jai nepasiduodu. Tik apsimetu. Sunkiausias dalykas gyvenime man visada buvo m?ginimas visiškai nusivilti. Nieko nepadarysi. Manyje visada yra kažkas, kas nesiliauja šypsoj?sis.

The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes them always able to evade it discreetly, to slip round it.

I had made it my chief aim in Africa to hinder the spreading of our poisons — of our absurd political notions of democracy, self-government, parliamentary institutions, political parties, and all that threatened the African way of life and the traditions of the African tribes. I was here to watch over a pastoral civilization, to prevent it from going our way, and I was ready to do anything to carry out my self-appointed task.

It was obviously a typical human enterprise, very much of this earth, with nothing true or sincere about it, and doomed irremediably to the usual exploitations and treachery...

I searched for something to say, since you always have to fall back on words to prevent silence from speaking too loudly..

Would you wish us to invest it for you? -No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals. -What kind of dumb animals do you have in mind, Miss Donahue? -Oh, stray dogs. Rats. Birds. -We could still invest it for you. Then the animals would get the income without touching the capital. -No, I don't wish to invest it. I don't want them to get rich. They might become human.