"Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his……" — Paolo Giordano
"Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward."
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28 Quotes by Paolo Giordano
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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
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She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she…
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People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. .…
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All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth…
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You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said. "How is that possible?…
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They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever…
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Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains
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She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from…
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With a little effort, she could get up by herself
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Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a…
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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.
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Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always…
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.…
— Sun Tzu
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you…
— Napoleon Hill
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
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There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
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