Literature · Reflection
IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ SOME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE…
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others…Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.”
7 May 2011
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