Raphael Hanna

“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor – then everything will grow easier, more unified and somehow more conciliatory, not perhaps in the intellect, which, amazed, remains a step behind, but in your deepest consciousness, watchfulness and knowledge.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace