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Enigma QUOTES

Enigma QUOTES

1 " Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had no faith in any of it. Faith in mathematics, yes; faith in logic, of course; faith in the trajectory of the stars, yes, perhaps. But faith in a God, Christian or otherwise? "

― Robert Harris , Enigma

2 " Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter. "

― Robert Harris , Enigma

3 " By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. "

― Robert Harris , Enigma

4 " You can at least say this for the blackout, he thought, it has given us back the stars. "

― Robert Harris , Enigma

5 " ancient runic systems and the Irish codes of the Book of Ballymote with their exotic names (‘Serpent through the heather’, ‘Vexation of a poet’s heart’), through the codes of Pope Sylvester II and Hildegard von Bingen, through the invention of Alberti’s cipher disk – the first poly-alphabetic cipher – and Cardinal Richelieu’s grilles, all the way down to the machine-generated mysteries of the German Enigma, "

― Robert Harris , Enigma