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“You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.”
― His Last Bow
― His Last Bow
“And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― The Secret History
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.”
― The Secret History
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“In a shilling-spin of an instant I realised that he wasn’t a crude work but the ruin of something fine.”
― The Bedlam Stacks
― The Bedlam Stacks
“I think that I had better go, Holmes."
"Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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