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“I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.”
― Marilyn Manson

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. ”
― Marilyn Manson

“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Art is a big question mark.”
― Marilyn Manson

“— You're nice. You aren't like the rest of them. I like you very much...
— I've done nothing to deserve that.
— One doesn't have to do anything to deserve that...”
― Romain Gary, Forest of Anger

“Small attentions make great friends.”
― Romain Gary, Forest of Anger

“M. Honoré is coming down the staircase. He holds himself straight and stiff, his cane under his arm. He does not look at Monsieur Karl, but through him. And every time Monsieur Karl feels humiliated. He wouldn't mind being hated: but he doesn't want to be ignored. He has the impression that he no longer exists, while this cracked Frenchman is going past.”
― Romain Gary, Forest of Anger

“Listen, my son", said Chumra, "I have not come here to plead my defense. But all the same, I will tell you this: the Polish peasant is on my side, not on yours. What have you done for him? Nothing. The value of your prowess to him is that he has been shot, his harvest has been confiscated, his village burned to the ground. What corn and potatoes he has managed to keep, he owes not to you, but to me. Myself, I don't blow up bridges: I simply see to it that my peasants do not die of hunger. I stand between them and the Germans: I prevent them from being starved or driven like lousy cattle to the West. The Polish state will cease to exist? So what? That's better than a Polish state peopled with corpses where every inhabitant looks like a survivor. It's very nice, a hopeless struggle — but the destiny of a race is to survive, and not to die beautifully..."
He tapped his foot.
"If you were to show me ten Polish children, and if I could save them by licking the boots of ten German soldiers, I should say: 'Your servant'...”
― Romain Gary

“— Sad?
— No. But I hate winter. I hate the snow. In weather like this, you'd really think that the world wasn't made for man and that we're here by accident.”
― Romain Gary, Forest of Anger

“Not that I would describe fidelity as an exclusive contract, but rather a mutual devotion within shared assumptions.
[...] She was greatly distressed, clearly more distressed than my condition warranted, and explained to me that when she was called and told of my accident she had been on the point of going to bed with a friend of mine. She left without a word to come to my side. That is what I mean by fidelity: putting love before pleasure.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“The transformation of a gilded playboy into a multinational titan did not surprise me. Age does not affect the taste for trophies, and flagging physical vigor is often compensated for by a fresh psychological drive. [...] In his fifties, a man’s virility often goes into action to build up a capital of power as a shelter against glandular decline.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.”
― 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.”
― 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

“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.”
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“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

“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

“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

“The grave doesn’t hold any terrors for me, quite the contrary, just as long as I get there in full possession of my faculties.”
― 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

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

“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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“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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“As you know, when an American sees another driving a Cadillac, he says to himself: 'One day I too will drive a Cadillac.' But when a Frenchman feels intimidated by someone else’s car, he says: 'Why can’t the bum drive a jalopy, like everyone else?”
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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.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable