Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Irene Nemirovsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian novelist Irene Nemirovsky.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine under the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.

Russian - Novelist | February 11, 1903 - August 17, 1942

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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 Nemirovsky

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

Irene Nemirovsky

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 Nemirovsky

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

Irene Nemirovsky

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.

Irene Nemirovsky

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Irene Nemirovsky

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