“An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of… — 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
“Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.” — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“...all intolerable local situations have become world situations, with the result that the whole world has become a local situation, here, under your nose,… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
