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Category: Romain Gary

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

Man, Dignity, Affirmation

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

humour, humorists

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

He gave up. He’d been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it’s maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don’t seem to have any more principles left, so it’s got to be maturity… A broken man, I guess that’s what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

-I love you, Lenny.-From the diaphragm.-What are you talking about?-You have to say it from the diaphragm. That’s a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that’s the first thing they told me. That’s when I quit. I just didn’t have that much in my diaphragm.

…the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass—.

freedom, rights

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction’s sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

reality, unbearable-situations

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction’s sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

reality, unbearable-situations