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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 mete… - Romain Gary
" "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.
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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
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Shatan Bogat
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Émile Ajar
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Lucien Brulard
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René Deville
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Emile Ajar
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Roman Kacew
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…Опитах. Но да се обрече човек на някого, защото е спрял да го обича, а това е несправедливо, да се обрече човек на някого в името на някаква етика, в това няма нищо живо и реално. Това е хуманизъм, в който не е останало нищо хуманно, противоестествен акт, и Ален никога не би го приел, докато беше.. цял.
…Колкото повече го обвинявах, толкова повече се мъчех да го обичам. Но в името на какво? В името на какво, Мишел? На някаква идея за справедливост, мисля… или за несправедливост. ... Почти въпрос на …цивилизация, знам ли. Но бях принудена да призная, че вече не ставаше въпрос за Ален. Не се обричах на човека, а на идеята си за човека, а в крайна сметка в това няма нищо човешко.
Racism is when it doesn't count. When they don't count. When one can do anything with them, it doesn't matter what , because they are not people like us. Do you see? Not our kind. When we can make use of them as we please, without losing face, dignity, honor. Without embarrassment, without making a moral judgement - that's it. When we can make them do no matter what degrading work, service, because their opinion of us doesn't count, because it cannot tarnish us. That's what racism is.
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"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."
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