I incline to Cain’s heresy, … I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde quotes
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In foggy Victorian London, the careful lawyer Mr. Utterson grows alarmed by the hold a brutal, repellent stranger named Edward Hyde seems to have over his respected friend Dr. Henry Jekyll. As he digs into the connection, the story becomes an early tale of science turned inward, asking what happens when a man tries to separate the good and evil in his own nature.
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I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward…
If he be Mr. Hyde, … I shall be Mr. Seek.
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some…
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two…
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability…