“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes

Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Source: The Black Obelisk


Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)