Arthur Conan Doyle
"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. "
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. "