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Irene Nemirovsky Quotes

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

Irene Nemirovsky
Beautiful, World, Absurd
Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Irene Nemirovsky
Law, Knives, People
Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Irene Nemirovsky
Music, Two, Differences
Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

Irene Nemirovsky
Breakup, Fighting, Winning

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Irene Nemirovsky
War, Happy Life, Imagination
Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage

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