It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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I wanted to end the world, but I’ll settle for ending yours.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
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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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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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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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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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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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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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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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