228 Quotes by Romain Gary

They had spent a few years in Paris, but they had still to undergo a real education — one which no school, lycee or university could supply: they had still to undergo their education in suffering. Then they’d be ready to understand what this was all about.

Small attentions make great friends.

After all, when no name springs spontaneously to mind, when you have to rummage in your address book for someone to invite, it is always best to give up trying, if only out of regard for the very concept of friendship.

דבר שאינו בראש ובראשונה פרי-הדמיון אינו ראוי שיחיו אותו. שאם לא כן, מהו ים - רק מים מלוחים ותו לא.... אני, למשל, כבר חמשים שנה אני ממציא בלי הרף את אשתי. בשום פנים ואופן לא נתתי לה להזדקן. היא ודאי מלאה וגדושה מגרעות, שאני הפכתין למעלות. ואני בעיניה אדם מופלא. גם היא לא חדלה אף פעם להמציא אותי.

He always remembered it vividly when he was in physical pain and when the limit of his strength seemed to have been reached, and it was a memory that helped him every time to hold out and to go on.

— You're nice. You aren't like the rest of them. I like you very much...— I've done nothing to deserve that.— One doesn't have to do anything to deserve that...

But she could feel that behind his words there was something nice and rather odd — kind people are often odd, she had explained to Saint-Denis, and she had added, rather mysteriously: it can’t be otherwise.

صاحب نشانی و هویت شدن یعنی: مرگِ اسبِ سفیدِ وحشی

(...) il fallait séparer nos souffles, s'écarter, s'espacer, se lever, se dédoubler, et c'est toujours autant de perdu. Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.- Est-ce que je suis envahissante?- Terriblement, lorsque tu n'es pas là.