The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFor strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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