Romain Gary:
(Vilnius, Russia, 21 May 1914 – Paris, 2 December 1980).
Born: Roman Kacew, also regularly working under pseudonyms, including as Emile Ajar, was a French-Jewish writer, translator, film director and diplomat. He won, as the only writer, the Prix Goncourt twice, once as Gary, once as Ajar. Apart from French, Gary also published in English.
If anything is unforgivable, it is the refusal to forgive.
The roads leading to freedom and human dignity pass through many deep valleys and therefore cannot lead to a single peak.