Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.... And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
Arthur Conan DoyleThere is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You have done
all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets
the credit, pray what remains for you?"
"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for
it.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
- The Adventure of the Dying Detective
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I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: energy sherlock-holmes futility electricity exhaustion batteries
Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
Arthur Conan DoyleI know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes arthur-conan-doyle
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
Arthur Conan DoyleHe is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
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