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The Elephant Vanishes

by Haruki Murakami

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Dec 18, 2020 08:20AM

“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.”
― Laurie R. King

tags: historical-fiction, mystery, sherlock-holmes

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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

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“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“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

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