4 Quotes & Sayings By Marceline Loridanivens

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (born in 1910) was a French woman, child of the Third Republic and the daughter of a doctor. She was born in Paris and died in Paris at the age of eighty-nine. She was a writer and a painter whose work is exhibited regularly. Her father was an art collector and taught her painting and drawing at an early age Read more

She did not pursue art professionally but did travel to South America and to the United States. Her prolific writing career began in 1930, when she wrote her first book, La Décade des enfants; it sold 300,000 copies in its first month of publication. From then on she wrote books regularly until 1975, when she retired to her garden in western France.

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Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them. Marceline LoridanIvens
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To everyone in the foyer reading the lists, or on the sidewalks waving signs and photos of their families who’d disappeared, I said over and over again: “Everyone is dead.” If they insisted, showing me family photos, I’d calmly say: “Were there any children? Not a single child will come back.” I didn’t mince my words, I didn’t try to spare their feelings, I was used to death. I’d become as hard-hearted as the deportees who saw us arrive at Birkenau without saying a single comforting word. Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them. . Marceline LoridanIvens
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...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever. Marceline LoridanIvens