Irène Némirovsky Quotes

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Music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

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

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.

Irène Némirovsky

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.

Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky

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Born: February 11, 1903

Died: August 17, 1942 (aged 39)

Bio: Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship.

Known for:

Suite Française
Le Bal (1930)
David Golder (1929)
Fire in the Blood
The Wine of Solitude

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