Irène Némirovsky Quotes

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd…”

“… for music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”

“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.”

“All the light of the day, fleeing the earth, seemed for one brief moment to take refuge in the sky; pink clouds spiralled round the full moon that was as green as pistachio sorbet and as clear as glass; it was reflected in the lake.”

“… because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.”