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"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
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"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
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"When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy."
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"A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky."
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"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me."
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"It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films."
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"The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones."
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"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
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"Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was tragic."
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"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
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"Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
Nothing

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge

"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth

"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature

"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Writing
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