Irene Nemirovsky Professions : Novelist Born : February 11, 1903 Died : August 17, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Irene Nemirovsky How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd. Irene Nemirovsky absurd beautiful world 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 fighting breakup winning music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. Irene Nemirovsky differences music two 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 knives law people 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 imagination war happy-life Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
