It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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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 emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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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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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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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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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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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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The game is afoot.
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