Art life Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

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“shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I”

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I…

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and…

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“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that…

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon…

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“Wonderful!" I ejaculated.”

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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

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“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.”

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“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat…

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Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

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“Now Now is the time… Now is the time – Make a change Now is the time – All is strange Now is the time – Start life anew Now is the time – Cannot stew Heartbreak, loss, pain, and challenges pale Now is the time – Sharp as a nail Now is the time – Take a chance Now…

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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

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“Miserable man that I am, what fellowship hath my perverseness with Thy uprightness ? Thou art truly good, I wicked; Thou full of compassion, I impious; Thou holy, I miserable; Thou just, I unjust; Thou art light, lam blind; Thou art life, and I am dead; Thou art medicine, I am sick; Thou supreme truth, and I utter vanity.’ It…

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...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A…

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Beware the person who has nothing to lose.In the end, music is your only friend.I know what its like to want to die; how it hurts to smile; how you try to fit in but you cant; how you hurt yourself on the outside; to try to kill the thing thats in the inside.Even the people who never frown eventually…

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The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life…

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“Whether they are part of a home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. Having taken away the dog, take away the kitchen–the smell of something good in the oven for dinner. Also the smell of washing day, of wool drying in the wooden rack. Of ashes. Of soup simmering on…

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Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

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“As we are in the Church age, which is an age of grace rather than the theocracy of Mosaic times, we are no longer under the Law as such. Dr. Geisler cogently summarizes these distinctions: “While the basic moral principles, reflective of God’s moral nature, embedded in the theocratic construct of Old Testament Israel, are the same immutable principles expressed…

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