The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Book Review N°12

“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”

“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.”

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”

“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.”