Irène Némirovsky Quotes
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.
...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.
...she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic.
Believe me, my boy, women don't love a man for himself but as a weapon against other women.
The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.
