The Kites

by Romain Gary

What if Nazism isn’t an inhuman monstrosity? What if it’s human? What if it’s a confession, a hidden truth, suppressed, camouflaged, denied, crouching deep within us, but always ready to reappear in the end? The Germans, yes of course, the Germans … It’s their turn in history, that’s all. We’ll see, after the war, once Germany has been defeated and Nazism has bolted or been buried, whether other peoples, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in America, don’t pick up the torch.

There’s been enough black and white. Gray is the only thing that’s human.

“Because feeling like the victim of an injustice is so much better than feeling guilty.”