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Alipur ka Ailee / علی پور کا ایلی

by Mumtaz Mufti

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Nov 03, 2012 05:27AM

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The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Maria’s Quotes

“No ghosts need apply.

- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: ghosts, holmesian, realism, scepticism, sherlock-holmes, sherlockian

12 likes

“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?"

[Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.]”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: detectives, motivation, raison-d-être, sherlock-holmes

27 likes

“The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons / The Adventure of the Crooked Man

tags: detectives, newspapers, press, sherlock-holmes

12 likes

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: loss, love, maltreatment, men, mistreatment, separation, sherlock-holmes, women

277 likes

“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: creeping-man, doyle, sherlock-holmes

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