Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happiness.
Irène NémirovskyTags: happiness passion joy jezebel irene-nemirovsky
Sie arbeiteten, lasen, gingen herum, aßen, organisierten Spiele, Darbietungen, aber nur ein Teil ihrer selbst handelte; der andere schlief einen schmerzhaften Schlaf und würde erst an dem gesegneten Tag (doch wann würde er kommen? Wann?) erwachen, an dem man ihnen sagte: «Jetzt ist es soweit, es ist vorbei».
Irène NémirovskyTags: sad-but-realistic
Sonrieron. Se entendían bien. No sólo los unía la carne, el pensamiento, el amor; además, habían nacido en el mismo puerto de Crimea, hablaban la misma lengua, se sentían hermanos. Habían bebido en la misma fuente, compartido un pan amargo.
Irène NémirovskyНищо не е по-ужасно от това да нямаш пари. Нищо не е по-грозно, по-срамно, по-непоправимо от бедността!
Irène NémirovskyThe breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through the opaque petals; this added something alive to the flower's fragility, to it's ethereal quality, something almost human ,in the way that human can mean frailty and endurance both at the same time. The wind could ruffle these ravishing creations but it couldn't destroy them, or even crush them; they swayed there, dreamily; they seemed ready to fall but held fast to their slim strong branches-...
Irène NémirovskyTags: strength humanity endurance flowers frailty
And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love?
Irène NémirovskyTags: love
- Però per què em dius tot això? Jo odio el meu passat! L'odio!
- Perquè ell és tu i tu ets ell.
Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.
Irène NémirovskyTags: folly
...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.
Irène NémirovskyTags: happiness
When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.
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