The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

bloody brilliant.

Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.

the duality of man.

I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.