“ How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's anoth… Irène Némirovsky
“ We're becoming slaves; the war scatters us in all directions, takes away everything we own, snatches the bread from out of our mouths; let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to lau… Irène Némirovsky
“ The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul. Irène Némirovsky
“ For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like… Irène Némirovsky
“ Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women. Irène Némirovsky
“ What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork. Irène Némirovsky
“ ...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic. Irène Némirovsky
“ The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The su… Irène Némirovsky
“ But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rai… Irène Némirovsky
“ Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance. Irène Némirovsky
“ Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woma… Irène Némirovsky
