„Patriotismus ist Liebe zu den Seinen; Nationalismus ist Hass auf die anderen.“
— Romain Gary
zitiert nach Yves Bizeul, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte Nr. 01 vom 02.01.2007 Fn. 19
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Romain Gary
Geburtstag: 21. Mai 1914
Todesdatum: 2. Dezember 1980
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Romain Gary war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Regisseur, Übersetzer und Diplomat. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg war er Pilot der Luftwaffe von France libre unter Charles de Gaulle. Gary schrieb überwiegend auf Französisch, auch wenn die englische Fassung seiner Werke mehrfach zuerst erschien.
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„I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.“
— Romain Gary
Context: Gari in Russian means "burn!"… 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)
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„As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just... get better.“
— Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.“
— Romain Gary
Context: 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.
The Life and Death of Émile Ajar (1980), an essay written prior to his suicide, as quoted in [http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/content/romain-gary-short-biography "Romain Gary: A Short Biography" by Madeleine Schwartz, at The Harvard Advocate]
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„Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.“
— Romain Gary
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223
„Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.“
— Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
„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
Promise at Dawn (1960) as quoted in [http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/906/great-pretenders/ "Great Pretenders" by Emma Garman in Tablet (31 October 2007)]
„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
The Dance of Genghis Cohn (1967)
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„There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.“
— Romain Gary
Interview (1970), republished in Le Judaïsme n’est pas une Question de Sang [Judaism Isn’t About Blood] (2008) by Les éditions de l’Herne, as quoted in [http://www.forward.com/articles/134609/ "A Chameleon on Show" in Forward (12 January 2011)]
„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.“
— Romain Gary
As quoted in Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2003) by Tzvetan Todorov, p. 217
