“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.” — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“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… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
“They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other- the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift,… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“...for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.” — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
“Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.” — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene,… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“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… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
