It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
タグ: sherlock-holmes, light, inspiration

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The little things are infinitely the most important.
タグ: time, happiness
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
タグ: science, crime
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
タグ: romance, passion, life, humor
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.
タグ: truth, reality, imagination
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
タグ: humor
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