"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
-Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.“
-Arthur Conan Doyle
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-Caspar David Friedrich
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