To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELife is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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One must wait till it comes.
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For 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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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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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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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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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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