Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Living inauthentically

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of the Four

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Topic
Process of elimination Logic Truth
Speaker
Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
Source
The Sign of the Four
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Detective fiction
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.