Romain Gary Quotes

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

برای بارور شدن مردان بزرگ «کودِ تاریخ» لازم است. گلهای عجیب و غریبی که به وجود می آورد، مثل گاندی، ناپلئون. اینها همه از اعماق کثافت بیرون می آن، از ته بیست قرن چرک و خون و کود تاریخ سر بلند می کنن

The transformation of a gilded playboy into a multinational titan did not surprise me. Age does not affect the taste for trophies, and flagging physical vigor is often compensated for by a fresh psychological drive. [...] In his fifties, a man’s virility often goes into action to build up a capital of power as a shelter against glandular decline.

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.

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.

"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."

"(...)ils ont des siècles d'esclavage derrière eux. (...) Je parle des blancs. Ça fait deux siècles qu'ils sont esclaves des idées reçues, des préjugés sacro-saints pieusement transmis de père en fils, (...). J'essaie de me dominer pendant qu'on m'explique une fois de plus que "vous ne pouvez pas comprendre, vous n'avez pas dix-sept millions de Noirs en France". C'est vrai : mais nous avons cinquante millions de français, ce qui n'est pas jojo non plus."

زندگی، چیزی نیست که متعلق به همه باشد.

... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa

ما می‌توانیم در نبردهای بسیاری پیروز شویم، اما خو گرفتن به این اندیشه که ممکن است مدام در نبردها فاتح شویم بی‌آنکه جنگ به نفع ما خاتمه یابد، شهامت فراوانی لازم دارد.

И не ви казвам, че човек не може да живее и без любов - може - и това е най-гадното.

If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.

— 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.

بشر، این خودفریب ابدی، می‌کوشد از طریق هنر والا و پرشکوه که پیوسته محکوم‌به ناکامی و نقص است، پاسخ متقاعدکننده فراهم آورد، پاسخی که هیچ‌گاه جز پرسشی تضرع‌آمیز و بیهوده و غمبار چیزی نبوده و نمی‌تواند باشد.

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