“Alcohol removed the chains holding in check my wish for revenge over having to conform to the stupidity of everyday life. Alcohol turned Jekyll into Hyde. But Jekyll was merely a façade. Hyde was there all along. Hyde was hatred for the world. And Jekyll the attempt to hide it.”
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“But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.”
“And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face…”
“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
“I have had a lesson—O God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had!”