Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEA man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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