“The bombs I dropped on Germany between 1940 and 1944 maybe killed a Rilke or a Goethe or a Hölderin in his cradle. And yes, of course, if it had to be done over, I would do it again. Hitler had condemned us to kill. Not even the most just causes are ever innocent.”
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
Romain Gary
“When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.”
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 slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with...”
Romain Gary
“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achiev...”
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.”
Romain Gary
