💬 Quotes

"Si je suis le monstre, c'est l'amour qui m'a fait ainsi."

"Il y a dans la musique une force mystérieuse qui peut bouleverser les âmes les plus fermes."

"La laideur peut se cacher sous le masque, mais la beauté de l'âme finit toujours par transparaître."

"Pauvre Erik! Il voulait être aimé comme tout le monde."

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."

"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become conscious of anything to pass through your mind."

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, and as the man dies, the shadow begins to fade unless others step into his light."

"Secret societies are bound to fail because they must inevitably exclude the very diversity which renewal requires."

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water."

"What is that is not known is more significant than what is known."

"Black Swans are based on three attributes: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability."

"Mild success can be explainable; extremes are not."

"We focus on preselected segments of the seen and generalize from it to the unseen: the error of confirmation."

"History does not crawl, it jumps. It builds up-slowly and incrementally, but it panics and reacts to a crisis."

"I want to live a life that is as immune as possible to informational blabber."

"I like people who are straight with you and tell you the truth. That is because I don't understand what people are saying when they are using metaphors or jokes."

"Prime numbers are what is left over when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

"I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like 'I am cloaked in despair' or 'He fell into an abyss of emptiness'. ... That is not the real world."

"And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything."