Katya

“I was thinking of the new future that our Communist science is opening to us,” he said.
“Our people are fully aware of that,” Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. “Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“The guy was typical of the deep dichotomy in human nature, with nobility and evil, darkness and light, love and hate as impossible to disentangle, to separate from each other, as it was to split the gasp. An impossible fission, a fusion as intricate, fundamental as that of culture with civilization.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“People often told him that Lan was very beautiful, but Pei had no opinion about that. He had never really noticed other women, and to say that a woman was or was not beautiful meant looking at her with an experienced eye.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“It’s too pragmatic for me,” Valenti said. “The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp