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> [“No one quite knew why, but they felt light-hearted. Maybe it was because of the beautiful weather. The sky, so blue, seemed gently to bow down towards the horizon and caress the earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/no-one-quite-knew-why-but-they-felt-light-hearted-maybe-it-was/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

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## More by Irène Némirovsky

> [“Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/evil-is-visible-it-burns-it-smugly-displays-itself-for-all-to-see/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here...It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/where-do-we-find-happiness-we-pursue-it-search-for-it-kill-ourselves/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/but-what-is-certain-is-that-in-five-ten-or-twenty-years-this-problem/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other- the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/they-felt-a-strange-happiness-an-urgent-need-to-reveal-their-hearts/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“...for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/for-music-alone-can-abolish-differences-of-language-or-culture/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/paris-had-its-sweetest-smell-the-smell-of-chestnut-trees-in-bloom-and/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/when-you-love-someone-as-much-as-that-you-don-t-believe-they-can-die/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/hun-ba-for-de-d-de-og-sendte-lykk-nskningsbrev-til-de-levende-hver/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/after-all-people-judge-one-another-according-to-their-own-feelings-it/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“Waiting is erotic”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/waiting-is-erotic/)

[irene nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“After all, the three of us were young. It wasn’t just about the pleasure of the flesh. No, it wasn’t that simple. The flesh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/after-all-the-three-of-us-were-young-it-wasn-t-just-about-the/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/this-thing-of-beauty-is-a-guilt-forever/)

[Irene Nemirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“Mothers and women in love: both ferocious females.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/mothers-and-women-in-love-both-ferocious-females/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/and-aren-t-the-most-beautiful-follies-the-ones-linked-to-love/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

> [“When older people get together there is something unflappable about them; you can sense they’ve tasted all the heavy, bitter, spicy food of life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/when-older-people-get-together-there-is-something-unflappable-about/)

[Irène Némirovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ir-ne-n-mirovsky/)

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