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“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth: that man is not truly one, but truly two. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened.”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth: that man is not truly one, but truly two. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened.”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
“Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.”
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.”