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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories

Book by Robert Louis Stevenson · 3 quotes · Men, Jekyll, Lays

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories Quotes

“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.”

“It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.”