Author of quotes: Romain Gary. Page 1

I give you a command: may the imminent victory find you in fraternal unity and may you find in yourself even greater strength and courage that we will need in order to win without becoming oppressors, and forgive without forgetting anything.

Father Burak's voice called them to prayer: the believers knelt in the snow around the illuminated tree, the rest bowed their heads and affirmed their faith in man with the same zeal with which their comrades appealed to the infinite.

He soon realized that nature can be as cruel as humans.

Everyone has the right to risk their lives: we are all willing to risk our own in the name of freedom. But no one has the right to pay for it with the lives of others.

He will be proud of me. Or he will shring his shoulders and say: he just did his duty.

Oi... What was that? Don't scare me, Rebbe... I have a wife in the seventh month, pregnant women can not be frightened. Molchem booilem boit! There may be premature birth.

- Yes. And more of these… ”He waved his hand at the window: tanks were rumbling down the street. - I am the last German.

- It's not about age, but about courage.

Do as you see fit, Tadek. But remember that in our time in all European countries, mature people think the same way as I do, and their sons throw themselves under bullets in order to have the pleasure of writing on the walls of the restroom: "Long live freedom!" In every country, old people defend their nation. They are smarter. The most important thing is not a flag, not a border or a government, but flesh and blood, sweat and mother's breast. Remember, the dead don't sing "Jeszcze Polska nie zginiela *!"

Hopeless struggle is very beautiful, but the task of the nation is to survive, not to die beautifully...

Bourgeois, - Pech remarked, - are the same everywhere. Whether in Paris, Berlin or Warsaw. - And pointedly plugged his nose: - In all countries of the world from them the same stinks!

- We shot him. Because he had a label on his back: "German." Because we had another: "Pole". And because our hearts were filled with hatred ... Someone said to him, I do not know, whether as an explanation or an excuse: "It's too late." But he was wrong. It was not too late. It was too early ...

I hope to finish my book before I get killed.
- Probably hard to write.
- It's hard now. But it's not as hard as staying alive, keeping to believe...

... our trees ask for honor by hanging a German soldier on each of their branches!