Waiting is erotic.
Irène NémirovskyTags: bruno
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...
Irène NémirovskyThis thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.
Irène Némirovsky...for music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.
Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious
Irène NémirovskyTags: reading irène-némirovsky the-dogs-and-the-wolves
Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.
Irène NémirovskyTags: life happiness love hate
My God! What is this country doing to me? Because it has rejected me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch it lose the honour and its life.
Irène NémirovskyTags: suite-française
...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.
Irène NémirovskyTags: passion patriotic prejudice
Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous impulses that sweep through our souls when we are twenty we later call naive, foolish…Our purest, most passionate loves take on the depraved appearance of sordid pleasure.
Irène NémirovskyAfter all, the three of us were young. It wasn’t just about the pleasure of the flesh. No, it wasn’t that simple. The flesh is easy to satisfy. It’s the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire…That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours the forest.
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