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“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Zdroj: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle

“One must wait till it comes.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Lost World

Zdroj: The Lost World

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Hound of the Baskervilles

Zdroj: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Zdroj: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha A Study in Scarlet

Zdroj: A Study in Scarlet

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha A Study in Scarlet

Zdroj: A Study in Scarlet

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”

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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

Zdroj: The Naval Treaty

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

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Zdroj: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

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“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Zdroj: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters (1894)

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

[Sherlock Holmes on his. ]”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Zdroj: The Adventure of the Dying Detective

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle kniha The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters (1894)