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History is more real than footnotes in small type which too often sound like an in-house conversation between willing conspirators.
“After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”
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“Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to 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.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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