My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
—Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Tags: parenthood human-character
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You may not appreciate them at first. You may pine for your novel of crude and unadulterated adventure. You may, and will, give it the preference when you can. But the dull days come, and the rainy days come, and always you are driven to fill up the chinks of your reading with the worthy books which wait so patiently for your notice. And then suddenly, on a day which marks an epoch in your life, you understand the difference. You see, like a flash, how the one stands for nothing, and the other for literature. From that day onwards you may return to your crudities, but at least you do so with some standard of comparison in your mind. You can never be the same as you were before. Then gradually the good thing becomes more dear to you; it builds itself up with your growing mind; it becomes a part of your better self, and so, at last, you can look, as I do now, at the old covers and love them for all that they have meant in the past.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: words reading books literature maturity classic-literature
En 1878, reçu médecin à l’Université de Londres, je me rendis à Netley pour suivre les cours prescrits aux chirurgiens de l’armée ; et là, je complétai mes études. On me désigna ensuite, comme aide-major, pour le 5e régiment de fusiliers de Northumberland en garnison aux Indes.
Arthur Conan DoyleIt seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.
Arthur Conan Doyle..There is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being
Arthur Conan DoyleThen he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward in his side. He was dead.
Arthur Conan DoyleEliminato l'impossibile ció che resta, per improbabile che sia, deve essere la veritá
Arthur Conan DoyleWhat do you wish to draw my attention to?
To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
The dog did nothing in the night-time.
That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes.
The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.
Arthur Conan DoyleExactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery.
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