With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. - Romain Gary
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
- Romain Gary
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 sl… - Romain Gary
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 sl…
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated. - Romain Gary
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better. - Romain Gary
As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. - Romain Gary
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there. - Romain Gary
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance. - Romain Gary
If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried. - Romain Gary
Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion