Top 33 Romain Gary Quotes
#1. ...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
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#2. There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
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#3. 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.
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#4. A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
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#5. Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.
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#6. As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just ... get better.
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#7. The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
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#10. Since when one has started dreaming, there were so many cries for help and so many bottles thrown into the sea, that it is amazing we still can see the sea when we should see only bottles.
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#11. All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.
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#12. I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.
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#13. If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
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#14. An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.
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#15. I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance
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#16. Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
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#17. Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...
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#18. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
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#19. I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
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#20. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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#21. Gari in Russian means "burn!" ... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
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#22. The only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in
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#23. If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.
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#24. He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity ... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.
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#25. Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control
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#26. I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else
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#27. When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
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#28. Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
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#29. They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
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#30. The only possible answers are questions. Real Vikings are questions. The answers are what the Vikings chanted during the voyage to keep their spirits up.
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#31. Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.
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#32. All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood
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#33. The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.
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