Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEI am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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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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The game is afoot.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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 one man can invent, another can discover.
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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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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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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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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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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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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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