Romain Gary Quotes

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.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.