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Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#good-and-evil #sherlock-holmes #life

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#love #maltreatment #men #mistreatment #separation

When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...”, how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.


Ruth A. Hawkins


#pauline-pfeiffer #marriage

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

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #violin #music

I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #music

The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music of St. James's Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes #music

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


Arthur Conan Doyle


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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock #sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes