For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWhen we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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