"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration……" — Romain Gary
"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."
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Romain Gary
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19 Quotes by Romain Gary
Romain Gary has 19 quotes on this site.
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When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
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Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is…
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I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one…
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With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold…
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The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
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I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym…
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A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the…
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There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
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Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned…
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If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
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Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
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More Affirmation Quotes
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to…
— Muhammad Ali
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the…
— Emma Goldman
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want…
— Louise Hay
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
— Stephen Leacock
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all…
— Shakti Gawain
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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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