Quotes by : Irène Némirovsky

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but....

We're becoming slaves; the war scatters us in all directions, takes away everything we own, snatches....

How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems....

Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that....

But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according....

...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals,....

Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.