Irene Nemirovsky famous quotes
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How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...
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music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.
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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.
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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.
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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
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.
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Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
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