A Conversation about Passion: Irene Nemirovsky (a tribute to Gustav Klimt)

“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 

 Image, "Portrait of a young woman" Gustav Klimt