Irene Nemirovsky quotes
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“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”
-- Irene NemirovskySource : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Francaise, a Novel”, Knopf Canada
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“music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.”
-- Irene NemirovskySource : 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.”
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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 NemirovskySource : 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 NemirovskySource : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Broadview Press
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“You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
Source : 'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 14
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“God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.”
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“Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.”
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