"Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week." "Strange," said I, "how terms of what in another man I should call la… - Arthur Conan Doyle

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.