Romain Gary quotes

Romain Gary was a French novelist, diplomat, and film director of Lithuanian-Jewish origin. Renowned for his literary versatility, he is the only person to have won the Prix Goncourt twice under different names. He explored themes of identity and human resilience in his work. Here are 18 of his quotes:

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. (Romain Gary)
I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. View quote
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When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated. View quote
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A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there. View quote
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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz. View quote
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If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. View quote
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Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. View quote
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I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me. View quote
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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. View quote
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit. View quote
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They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior. (Romain Gary)
I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you. View quote
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Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried. View quote
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The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are ever innocent. View quote
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During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high. View quote
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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. View quote
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As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just... get better. View quote
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The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar... I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you. View quote
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Romain Gary

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Occupation: French Writer
Born: May 8, 1914
Died: December 2, 1980
Quotes count: 18
Wikipedia: Romain Gary

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