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"Finally getting back to these! I finished the Memoirs. I've liked the short story collections much more than the first two novels. Memoirs felt like it had much more focus on Holmes and Watson in addition to all the detail put into the individual cases. This second collection also felt slightly more diverse in the cases' themes. I enjoy the eccentricity of Holmes." — Aug 09, 2020 05:55PM
"Finally getting back to these! I finished the Memoirs. I've liked the short story collections much more than the first two novels. Memoirs felt like it had much more focus on Holmes and Watson in addition to all the detail put into the individual cases. This second collection also felt slightly more diverse in the cases' themes. I enjoy the eccentricity of Holmes." — Aug 09, 2020 05:55PM
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
― Renegade's Magic
― Renegade's Magic
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
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