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Romain Gary Quote: “I had made it my chief aim in Africa to hinder the spreading of our poisons – of our absurd political notions of democracy, self-government, parliamentary institutions, political parties, and all that threatened the African way of life and the traditions of the African tribes. I was here to watch over a pastoral civilization, to prevent it from going our way, and I was ready to do anything to carry out my self-appointed task.”

51. “I had made it my chief aim in Africa to hinder the spreading of our poisons – of our absurd political notions of democracy, self-government, parliamentary institutions, political parties, and all that threatened the African way of life and the traditions of the African tribes. I was here to watch over a pastoral civilization, to prevent it from going our way, and I was ready to do anything to carry out my self-appointed task.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

53. “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

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “It was obviously a typical human enterprise, very much of this earth, with nothing true or sincere about it, and doomed irremediably to the usual exploitations and treachery...”

55. “It was obviously a typical human enterprise, very much of this earth, with nothing true or sincere about it, and doomed irremediably to the usual exploitations and treachery...”

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Romain Gary Quote: “After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn’t have to be very intelligent: it’s enough to have suffered.”

56. “After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn’t have to be very intelligent: it’s enough to have suffered.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

57. “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

Romain Gary Quote: “She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. ‘Women,’ I concluded rather bitterly, ’have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.”

58. “She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. ‘Women,’ I concluded rather bitterly, ’have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn’t end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.”

60. “You see, deep in their hearts they’re convinced that a colonization that doesn’t end in a seditious movement and massacres is not a successful colonization. Perhaps they’re right, in a way.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “Slowly I felt flooded with that agonizing and poignant confusion that surely comes to all aging men experiencing their first adolescent love. I had no great wish to go on living; what was the point of a flawed happiness. According to Bonnard, the hardest moment of all is when the artist longs to keep on but he’s conscience tells him that one brushstroke more will spoil the entire painting. And man has to know when to stop.”

61. “Slowly I felt flooded with that agonizing and poignant confusion that surely comes to all aging men experiencing their first adolescent love. I had no great wish to go on living; what was the point of a flawed happiness. According to Bonnard, the hardest moment of all is when the artist longs to keep on but he’s conscience tells him that one brushstroke more will spoil the entire painting. And man has to know when to stop.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Romain Gary

Romain Gary Quote: “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.”

63. “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

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