Irene Nemirovsky Quotes

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

  Irene Nemirovsky

  Beautiful, World, Absurd

  Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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