Dimanche and Other Stories Quotes

“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!”
― Irène Némirovsky, Dimanche and Other Stories

“Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here...It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Dimanche and Other Stories