

“The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned

“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.”
― The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
― The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“Omne ignotum pro magnifico.”
― The Red-Headed League
― The Red-Headed League

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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