The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent?

that 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;

in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable;