Irene Nemirovsky famous quotes

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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.

  • 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.

  • The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

  • Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

  • God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

  • Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.