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 …

- 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 b…

- Irene Nemirovsky

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

- Irene Nemirovsky

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