It is introspective, and I want to introspect.
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You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.
Arthur Conan DoyleHe is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: the-final-problem
I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for.
Arthur Conan DoyleIt’s every man’s business to see justice done.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: equality justice responsibility
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: thought-provoking intelligent
The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it.
Arthur Conan DoyleTo 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.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: women sherlock-holmes irene-adler
It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.
Arthur Conan DoyleSHERLOCK HOLMES - I SUOI LIMITI
1. Conoscenza della letteratura - Zero.
2. Conoscenza della filosofia - Zero.
3. Conoscenza dell'astronomia - Zero.
4. Conoscenza della politica - Scarsa.
5. Conoscenza della botanica - Variabile. Sa molte cose sulla belladonna, l'oppio e i veleni in genere. Non sa niente di giardinaggio.
6. Conoscenza della geologia - Pratica, ma limitata. Distingue a colpo d'occhio un tipo di terreno da un altro. Rientrando da qualche passeggiata mi ha mostrato delle macchie di fango sui pantaloni e, in base al colore e alla consistenza, mi ha detto in quale parte di Londra se l'era fatte.
7. Conoscenza della chimica - Profonda.
8. Conoscenza dell'anatomia - Accurata, ma non sistematica.
9. Conoscenza della letteratura scandalistica - Immensa. Sembra conoscere ogni particolare di tutti i misfatti più orrendi perpetrati in questo secolo.
10. Buon violinista.
11. Esperto schermidore col bastone, pugile, spadaccino.
12. Ha una buona conoscenza pratica del diritto britannico.
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