The novelist that I am in love with these diamonds ephemeral, sometimes very pure, sometimes black, but always unique and deeply moving in their mysterious luster, went looking for them to this wealth of inexhaustible wealth and poverty that used to be called the human soul - I say "once" because the word is gone out of fashion, with its echo beyond. "The treasures I brought back from there are intangible, and when the pen does not understand them, they disappear forever. 2009. "From Djibouti to Yemen, Romain Gary travels the scorched earth and hostile to report a rare force of testimony.