“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Good luck, brave and beautiful strangers.
Aren't we the lucky ones
walking into the night, all eyes on the same star?
Aren't we the lucky ones?
We were here for a time to dream.
We still are.”
― If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
Aren't we the lucky ones
walking into the night, all eyes on the same star?
Aren't we the lucky ones?
We were here for a time to dream.
We still are.”
― If Tomorrow Doesn't Come
“Again I see him, leaning back in one of the luxurious chairs with which his room was furnished. I see his indolent, athletic figure; his pale, sharp, clean-shaven features; his curly black hair; his strong, unscrupulous mouth. And again I feel the clear beam of his wonderful eye, cold and luminous as a star, shining”
― The Complete Raffles Collection
― The Complete Raffles Collection
“It was Raffles I loved. It was not the dark life we led together, still less its base rewards; it was the man himself, his gayety, his humor, his dazzling audacity, his incomparable courage and resource. And a very horror of turning to him again in mere need of greed set the seal on my first angry resolution. But the anger was soon gone out of me, and when at length Raffles bridged the gap by coming to me, I rose to greet him almost with a shout.”
― The Complete Raffles Collection
― The Complete Raffles Collection
“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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