My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of…

Arthur Conan Doyle
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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. ✨ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p.55
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