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 NemirovskyWhat separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
Irene Nemirovskymusic alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.
Irene Nemirovsky