Irène Némirovsky said this quote

“ How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn! ”

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Waiting is erotic

~ Irène Némirovsky

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 Némirovsky

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.

~ Irène Némirovsky

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

~ Irène Némirovsky