Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal – are you a masochist?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Love, Criminality, Psychology, Self-destructive Behavior, Relationships
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“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Justice, Morality, Courage, Human Rights, Personal Integrity
Arthur Conan Doyle Justice, Morality, Courage, Human Rights, Personal Integrity“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Life, Imagination, Reality, Extraordinary, Human Experience
Arthur Conan Doyle Life, Imagination, Reality, Extraordinary, Human Experience“Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge, Complexity, Simplicity, Explanation, Intellectual Tendency
Arthur Conan Doyle Knowledge, Complexity, Simplicity, Explanation, Intellectual Tendency“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Mental Stimulation, Boredom, Work Ethic, Intellectual Challenge, Personal Trait
Arthur Conan Doyle Mental Stimulation, Boredom, Work Ethic, Intellectual Challenge, Personal Trait“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Legacy, Ambition, Authorship, Literary Creation, Personal Goals
Arthur Conan Doyle Legacy, Ambition, Authorship, Literary Creation, Personal Goals“It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber, and no more congenial surroundings.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Books, Bibliophile, Reading, Comfort, Personal Taste
Arthur Conan Doyle Books, Bibliophile, Reading, Comfort, Personal Taste“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Music, Solace, Human Nature, Weather, Escapism
Arthur Conan Doyle Music, Solace, Human Nature, Weather, Escapism“It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Skepticism, Nature, Myths, Rationality, Scientific Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle Skepticism, Nature, Myths, Rationality, Scientific Thinking“It was a tremendously virile and yet sinister face which was turned towards us. With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of a sensualist below, the man must have started with great capacities for good or for evil. But one could not look upon his cruel blue eyes, with their drooping, cynical lids, or upon the fierce, aggressive nose and the threatening, deep-lined brow, without reading Nature's plainest danger-signals.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Character Description, Physiognomy, Evil, Human Nature, Observation
Arthur Conan Doyle Character Description, Physiognomy, Evil, Human Nature, Observation“The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Patience, Suffering, Life Lessons, Virtue, Human Nature
Arthur Conan Doyle Patience, Suffering, Life Lessons, Virtue, Human Nature“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Deception, Facts, Observation, Investigation, Critical Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle Deception, Facts, Observation, Investigation, Critical Thinking“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Probability, Science, Imagination, Deduction, Logical Reasoning
Arthur Conan Doyle Probability, Science, Imagination, Deduction, Logical Reasoning“How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Data, Reasoning, Danger, Investigation, Logical Thinking
Arthur Conan Doyle Data, Reasoning, Danger, Investigation, Logical Thinking“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Music, Relaxation, Simple Pleasures, Harmony, Artistic Pursuit
Arthur Conan Doyle Music, Relaxation, Simple Pleasures, Harmony, Artistic Pursuit“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Power, Limitations, Authority, Helplessness, Government Support
Arthur Conan Doyle Power, Limitations, Authority, Helplessness, Government Support“We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Admiration, Detective Skills, Compliment, Supernatural Comparison, Defeat
Arthur Conan Doyle Admiration, Detective Skills, Compliment, Supernatural Comparison, Defeat“None knew who belonged to this ruthless society. The names of the participators in the deeds of blood and violence done under the name of religion were kept profoundly secret.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Secrecy, Violence, Religion, Society, Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle Secrecy, Violence, Religion, Society, Mystery“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.” Arthur Conan Doyle
Fate, Destiny, Anticipation, Life-changing Moments, Uncertainty
Arthur Conan Doyle Fate, Destiny, Anticipation, Life-changing Moments, Uncertainty