Arthur Conan Doyle

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#nature

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#boswell #chronicler #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #sidekicks

To a great mind nothing is little. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#motivation #raison-d-être #sherlock-holmes #motivational

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#imagination

To begin at the beginning. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#watson #sherlock-holmes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#life