"People took what they wanted, they clutched at……" — Paolo Giordano
"People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains."
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28 Quotes by Paolo Giordano
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Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always…
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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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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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