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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

“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
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“Since when one has started dreaming, there were so many cries for help and so many bottles thrown into the sea, that it is amazing we still can see the sea when we should see only bottles.”
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“You are the only man I ever respected,' she said. 'But you haven't aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don't age well.”
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“Look, what do you think it matters to me, all that - all that business of - of the body? Do you suppose I actually picked you, of my own free will? As if I'd gone out shopping and decided you were the best buy for the money? I had no choice at all... You're you, and there's no one, nothing else. We talk about 'falling' in love. Well, I 'fell.”
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“Racism is when it doesn't count. When they don't count. When one can do anything with them, it doesn't matter what , because they are not people like us. Do you see? Not our kind. When we can make use of them as we please, without losing face, dignity, honor. Without embarrassment, without making a moral judgement - that's it. When we can make them do no matter what degrading work, service, because their opinion of us doesn't count, because it cannot tarnish us. That's what racism is.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“cette façon que vous avez de vouloir renoncer plutôt que de perdre.”
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“To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one’s own. True living is done in pairs.”
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“Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.”
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“The best way to defend yourself against the power of money is to have some.”
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“My hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty, inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time was abetted by Laura's complicity.”
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“I experienced so intense a moment of despair, frustration and rebelliousness that irony, my most trusted weapon of defense, became instead another scalpel for probing my own wounds.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“Perhaps, there was something missing in me, a lack of empathy without which even love and happiness are merely a part of that struggle toward championship.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“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.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word ‘impossible’ is not in his vocabulary.”
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“A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.”
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“Gritti'deki dairemde saat sabahın yedisinde Dooley'in telefonuyla uyanmıştım.”
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“I was angry at her, so angry — there is no greater weakness than to be in love with someone, to be at the mercy of it.”
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“It's a bad break, staying so young at heart.”
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“Besides, there's nothing like the truth to make a convincing lie.”
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“— When a man close to sixty decides to break with a young woman whom he loves, and who loves him, what would you call it?
— Damned stupidity, sir.
— Yes, damned stupidity; in other words, ‘good sense’.”
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“Of course it’s always possible to gain time, put up a front, try to last it out - how long, a year, eighteen months? I’d rather leave the arena before I am beaten to a pulp and have to be dragged out. One has to know how to accept the inevitable.”
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“And I found myself falling off asleep, because in that half-awake state, one’s sensibilities are blunted and happiness can still hover nearby...”
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“The pristine vision of childhood restores freshness to even the most time-worn scenes, and in Laura’s company I recovered some of the delights I had experienced years ago when my son was a little boy.”
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“There are those who have said about us, “What does she see in him?” or “What does he see in her?”; the usual sort of thing that only proves two people indeed see everything in each other.”
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“You can say anything you like about life, but one thing is certain: life doesn’t give a damn. It has never made any clear distinction between happiness and misery. It simply doesn’t watch where it’s going.”
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“What I dread is the moment when her understanding turns to compassion, and her tenderness, her concern, come dangerously close to pity and maternal solicitude as to change the very nature of our lovemaking. “No, no, my darling, we mustn’t, you will strain yourself....” p41 ... Of course I should have spoken to her frankly, from the first. But to name the Devil is to conjure him up. And the moods of lovers are contagious. There is that hazardous balance between them where the misery of the one brings on the insecurity and anxiety of the other; things quickly go from bad to worse , until they can no longer speak about it and the silence grows like a wall between them.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“Could it have come for me, too, the time to 'save my honor'? How many men leave an 'overly demanding' woman to duck the moment of truth when their inadequacy can no longer be disguised? [...] 'She doesn’t excite me anymore' neatly passes the buck by leaving the woman feeling she is to blame, that she has somehow lost her attraction, her sex appeal, whatever; it is a ploy typical of the aging cock-of-the-walk whose strutting and preening are meant to conceal his private failings.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“The mythology of the superstud...' my friend, the poet Henti Drouille, had written on a slip of paper before putting a bullet in his head. His mistress cried out to me: 'I don’t understand - I don’t understand! He was such a marvelous lover!' True enough, so marvelous that she had noticed nothing. I saw in my mind the virile mask of Jim Daley and seemed to hear his voice saying: 'She was probably the clitoral type. Sometimes, a man gets a break this way.' No, one has to know when to stop.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable