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Myth feeds on the gaps in history. And in the case of the Ripper’s identity it is less a gap than a yawning pit into which Ripperologists, novelists and film-makers can toss any theory they like as long as they are not required to
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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