It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a condu…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p.17, Wordsworth Editions
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