Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference."
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Jekyll
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."
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"O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend."
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"It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?"
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"Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you."
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"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."
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"There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror."
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