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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“To be listened to is healing,”
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“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
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“Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.”
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“What did it matter? We are dying while we are living. We are old even when we're young. We are clinging to life even as we resign ourselves to leaving it.”
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