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Arthur Conan Doyle: My mind rebels...

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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 am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Source: Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four, ch. 1, 1890.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, (May 22 1859-1930), Scottish author, physician; He created the detective Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, 1887.

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