Quotes from Romain Gary

Quand on a envie de crever, le chocolat a encore meilleur goût que d'habitude.

h?nh phúc là cái gì Ä'ó có th? ??t tá»›i, ch? c?n tìm th?y thiên hÆ°á»›ng sâu xa trong mình r?i h?t lòng vá»›i nh?ng gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên c? b?n thân.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

Lorsqu'on a aimé une femme de tous ses yeux, de tous ses matins, de toutes les forêts, champs, sources et oiseaux, on sait qu'on ne l'à pas encore aimée assez et que le monde n'est qu'un commencement de tout ce qui vous reste à faire.

But Herbier was much too fond of Africa and it's people to feel sorry that he had never been able to to contemplate them from the administrative heights: a fine view, perhaps, but a distant one.

The grave doesn't hold any terrors for me, quite the contrary, just as long as I get there in full possession of my faculties.

His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.

She was pressing her body against his while leaning back from the waist up in that attitude of children and whores.

Le plus mauvais film américain est toujours véridique, il rend toujours fidèlement compte des États-Unis. Cela

Le paradoxe de la science est qu'il n'y a qu'une réponse à ses méfaits et à ses périls : encore plus de science.

No one knew the desert better than Scholscher, who had spent so many nights alone there on the starlit dunes, and no one understood better than he did that need for protection which sometimes grips men's hearts and drives them to give a dog the affection they dream so desperately of receiving themselves. And certainly this deep feeling of helplessness had never been more agonizing than now.

Somewhere, thought Scholscher, in some remote thicket, the corpse of a man was probably rotting away so that his legend might be useful to a cause, an ideology.

I'm a lousy housewife, Marc, and do I know it. Why didn't you pick yourself a nice little French girl who cooks?" "Because you don't pick and choose in love, honey. When it hits you in the right way it's almost always with the wrong woman.

He didn't believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life's never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.

and one evening she came across him in the middle of the Maidaguri road, where he lay, his face in the dust, in the midst of a group of natives who were laughing with that light, eternal laughter which is their way of enduring all things.

I can't help it. I've always been a philanthropist. For the legitimate aspirations of the peoples, arms and explosives were necessary, and for the legitimate aspirations of the human soul, drugs were necessary. Always in the front rank of the benefactors of humanity, you see.

He tried to behave, but then despair always took the form of irony with him.

Wszystko w tym opowiadaniu jest prawdÄ… - chyba tylko prócz dialogów: nie mam takiej nadludzkiej pamiÄ™ci. DochodzÄ™ zresztÄ… powoli do przekonania, ?e w ogóle nic nadludzkiego we mnie nie ma. Bardzo mnie to dziwi, ale trudno.

It is always pathetic to watch the efforts a man makes to cling to a straw, especially when one is oneself the straw.

Progress always slows down before picking up again.

He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.

In England,' I told her, 'the whole thing would probably have been settled by a letter to the Times, after which, under pressure from public opinion, Parliament would simply vote the necessary laws for the protection of the African fauna.

Could you let me hear more, without the usual scientific jargon? All this talk of 'antigravity' and 'antimatter' sounds like scientists' covering up a big, dark, uncomfortable gaping hole in their knowledge and understanding.