“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023Related quotes
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Muslim Brotherhood Review (20 July 2015)
“A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.”
Stephen King book Christine
Epilogue
Christine (1983)
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
Speculum mentis est facies, et taciti oculi cordis fatentur arcana.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 54
Letters
“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"The Sick Chamber," The New Monthly Magazine (August 1830), reprinted in Essays of William Hazlitt, selected and edited by Frank Carr (London, 1889)
Source: Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr
“The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Apprendre à voir, voilà tout le secret des études naturelles.
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Letter to Juliette Lambert-Adam (7 April 1868)
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
Variant: Nature and books belong to all who see them.