Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.
Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
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.
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.
She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
I still remember, I think it was with the third movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans, and just to walk in there and do nothing.