"The scene was set. All that was required……" — Paolo Giordano
"The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are."
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28 Quotes by Paolo Giordano
Paolo Giordano has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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