Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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Summary

This quote highlights the idea that life itself can produce phenomena and scenarios that are more bizarre and unexpected than anything the human imagination can conjure. The speaker suggests that the creativity and unpredictability of life surpasses our own attempts at envisioning extraordinary situations. It implies that reality has a way of surpassing our wildest dreams and that if we seek the unusual and the extraordinary, we need only turn to our own existence and the world around us to find it.

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Imagination

By Arthur Conan Doyle

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