“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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.