Romain Gary (Emile Ajar): The Life Before Us

I didn’t want to be anywhere at all. I shut my eyes, but it takes more than that; I was still there, it’s automatic when you’re alive... Monsieur Hamil is right when he says that nobody has understood anything for centuries and one can only stand amazed.

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They told me the whole thing could be run off in reverse from the end to the beginning, “right back to the earthly paradise,” but added: “unfortunately when it starts up again it’s always the same

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