Mona's Eyes Quotes

“«Smetti di chiedere scusa quando le tue sensazioni non rispecchiano ciò che ci si aspetta da te. Sei libera di provare le emozioni che vuoi.»”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes

“I swear to you, on all that’s beautiful on earth.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: ‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“man who wrote a book without the letter ‘e,’ remember?” “Georges Perec. The Disappearance.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Historians scorn so-called “uchronic” hypotheses”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Vincent said something very moving on that subject”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“She was originally called Julia Jackson and was the niece and adored goddaughter of Julia Margaret Cameron. Since she was phenomenally beautiful”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Courbet’s Realism,”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Exactly. It’s a veritable manifesto campaigning for anyone—poor or powerful—to have the right to be represented in paint”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“To Christ”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Being happy is a duty to others,”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“The poet Ovid described the phase when consciousness slips away as like entering a giant cave sheltering the languid”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“human nature, to be capable of great and beautiful things, must be ready to embrace the kindness of others, their desire to give pleasure, to embrace what it doesn’t yet have, and what it isn’t yet.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Art is pyrotechnics”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“it matters little if you don’t instantly understand all that someone says”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“People endowed with great sensitivity often succumb to drunkenness because it heightens that quality.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes

“by some kind of existential curve”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Sometimes”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel

“Art is a guaranty of sanity.”
― Thomas Schlesser, Mona's Eyes: A Novel