Ромен Гари цитаты
Ромен Гари
Дата рождения: 21. Май 1914
Дата смерти: 2. Декабрь 1980
Другие имена: Roman Kacew
Роме́н Гари́ — французский писатель еврейского происхождения, литературный мистификатор, кинорежиссёр, военный, дипломат.
Дважды лауреат Гонкуровской премии .
Цитаты Ромен Гари
„I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.“
La Nuit Sera Calme [The Night Will Be Calm] (1974)
Контексте: Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
„As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.“
— Romain Gary, книга Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Источник: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior“
— Romain Gary, книга Gros-Câlin
Источник: Gros-Câlin
„I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.“
The Life and Death of Émile Ajar (1980), an essay written prior to his suicide, as quoted in "Romain Gary: A Short Biography" by Madeleine Schwartz, at The Harvard Advocate http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/content/romain-gary-short-biography
Контексте: The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
„Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.“
— Romain Gary, книга Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Источник: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.“
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223
„During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.“
— Romain Gary, книга Hocus Bogus
Pseudo (1976)
„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 achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.“
— Romain Gary, книга Promise at Dawn
Promise at Dawn (1960) as quoted in "Great Pretenders" by Emma Garman in Tablet (31 October 2007) http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/906/great-pretenders/
„When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.“
— Romain Gary, книга Tulipe
Tulipe (1946)
„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 a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.“
Introduction to The Plague (1946) by Albert Camus, as translated in a 1962 edition.
„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.“
As quoted in Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2003) by Tzvetan Todorov, p. 217
