Romain Gary Quotes

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

Romain Gary, born Romain Kacew (8 May 1914 - 2 December 1980) was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, WWII pilot and diplomat. He wrote under many pseudonyms including Shatan Bogat, Rene Deville and Fosco Sinibaldi. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his own name and again under the pseudonym Émile Ajar.

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Pen Names: Fosco Sinibaldi • Shatan Bogat • Émile Ajar • Lucien Brulard • René Deville

Alternative Names: Emile Ajar • Roman Kacew

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... I don’t like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook.

حتی در ترانه های شکسپیر هم اثری از اُمّید نیست، چون در آن زمان سیفیلیس بیداد می کرد. اندوه عمیق نهفته در ترانه های شکسپیر از آنجاست که در آن روزها «عشق» همیشه با سیفیلیس متداعی بود. هفتاد درصد مردم به آن مبتلا بودند. زنگ عمیق اشعار عاشقانه به همین دلیل بود. چون عاقبتش دیوانگی بود یا کوری و هیچ علاجی هم نداشت. «عشق» چیزی بود فوق العاده «مهم»، درست مثل «مرگ» و «زندگی». امروز «عشق» اهمیت تراژیک خود را از دست داده است چون حسابش از «کوفت» جدا شده است

They died... Have you ever seen a baby elephant lying on its side, with its trunk inert, gazing at you with eyes in which there seem to have taken refuge all those so highly praised human qualities of which humanity is so largely devoid?

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

هیچ کس تا به حال دو مرتبه در عمرش عاشق نشده، عشق دوم ، عشق سوم ، اینها بی معنی است . فقط رفت و امد است . افت و خیز است . معاشرت می کنند و اسمش را می گذارند عشق.

جوانک‌هایی را می‌شناسم که خودشان را با انواع کثافتها مشغول می‌کنند. اما من برای خوشی و شادی، حاضر نیستم کون زندگی را بلیسم. باهاش تعارفی ندارم. گور پدرش کرده.

Je devais un jour opter pour la littérature, qui me paraissait le dernier refuge, sur cette terre, de tous ceux qui ne savent pas où se fourrer.

Humoru žmogus pareiškia savo orumą ir teigia savo pranašumą prieš tai, kas jam nutinka.

عشق فقط هم آغوشی نیست... عشق، زندگی است که می خواد شمارو دوباره «گرفتار» خودش بکنه

For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it’s useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life.

Писнало ми е от хора, дето все въздишат.

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

"I spend the next few days watching Maï die. I can't stand that voice, that protest. Katzenelenbogen shows up and explains in that rational, no-nonsense, doctoral tone that no one has the right to make such a fuss over a cat, while the whole world. . . . . I kick them out, both him and the world.
Maï is no longer a cat. She is a human being in agony. Every living thing that suffers is a human being.
She is cuddled in my arms, a small ball of lackluster fur, which gives her a horrible stuffed air already smacking of taxidermists. Every now and then she raises her head, looks at me inquiringly and miaows a question I understand, but am unable to answer. Our vocal cords are totally inadequate there.
What goings-on about a mere cat, huh? I hate your guts, you antisentimental, antiemotional, hardheaded rationalists. You are the ones who have raised the going rate of sensitivity. You have put all your emphasis on ideas, and ideas without "emotions" and without "sentimentalism," that's the world you have built, your work.
All the pseudo-people who have the Nazi arrogance to be reading this book make my hands ache for a grenade."

Като се събудя, отначало за нищо не мисля и това са хубави мигове.

Аз мисля, че живота трябва да го живеем в най-ранна възраст, защото после се обезценяваш и никой нищо не ти дава даром.