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    Coco Chanel
    “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
    tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity
    1789 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
    ― Freidrich Neitzsche
    tags: philosophy, women
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
    6785 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
    1859 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
    865 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: accomplishment, belief, rewriting-history, sherlock-holmes
    868 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League
    tags: humor
    384 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: women
    502 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth
    438 likes

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    Steven Moffat
    “I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
    ― Steven Moffat, A Study In Pink
    457 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: sherlock-holmes
    329 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
    765 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: impossible
    429 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
    21193 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?

    How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: credulity, fables, superstition
    191 likes



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