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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
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“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
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“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
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“I often think that perhaps there is only a limited amount of memory going about the world, and that when it wants to live again, it steals its nest, like a cuckoo.”
― The Brontes Went to Woolworths
― The Brontes Went to Woolworths
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