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Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

— Romain Gary Introduction to The Plague (1946)

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During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.

Pseudo (1976)

Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

La Nuit Sera Calme [The Night Will Be Calm (1974)

A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

The Dance of Genghis Cohn (1967)

To renew myself, to relive, to be someone else, was always the great temptation of my existence.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

Tulipe (1946)

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