“To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“I’m a lousy housewife, Marc, and do I know it. Why didn’t you pick yourself a nice little French girl who cooks?”… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“-I love you, Lenny. -From the diaphragm. -What are you talking about? -You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“I wondered — and I finally reached the conclusion that the Lebanese was a man who was in love with life, and… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“He might all the same do a little something for us. We’re on our backs, doesn’t He see?' 'I’m doing my best, I tell… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
