Romain Gary Quotes

"Какво е това "проблеми на двойката"? Или има проблеми, или двойка."

Тя ми обеща да се грижи за мен, сложи ме на коленете си и ми изпя една детска приспивна песен от Сенегал. И във Франция има, но аз не съм ги слушал, защото бебе никога не съм бил, все съм си имал и други грижи на главата.

— Този няма нужда дори да го навивате. Върви по цяла година, с кварц. — А аз, напротив, искам часовник, който има нужда от мен и ще спре, ако го забравя. Въпросът е личен.

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.

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.

زندگی، چیزی نیست که متعلق به همه باشد.

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

You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn't end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.

زندگی تنها چیزی ست که برایش باقی مانده.

Я не надто шукаю щастя, я віддаю перевагу життю.

Your generation is suffering from what for lack of a better word I shall call over-debunk. There was a lot of debunking that had to be done, of course. Bigotry, militarism, nationalism, religious intolerance, hypocrisy, phonyness, all sorts of dangerous, ready-made, artificially preserved false values. But your generation and the generation before yours went too far with their debunking job. You went overboard. Over-debunk, that's what you did. It's moral overkill. It's like those insecticides Rachel Carson speaks of in her book, that poison everything, and kill all the nice, useful bugs as well as the bad ones, and in the end poison human beings as well. In the end, it poisons life itself, the very air we breathe. That's what you did, morally and intellectually speaking. Yours is a silent spring. You have overprotected yourselves. You are all no more than twenty, twenty-two years old, but yours is a silent spring, I'm telling you. Nothing sings for you any more.

Надявам се, че никога няма да бъда нормален, доктор Кац, всичките мръсници са все нормалници.

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

Писнало ми е от хора, дето все въздишат.

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.