chapter 10 Flashcards
Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case
“with every guarantee…
of an honourable and distinguished future”
“I found it hard to reconcile…
with my imperious desire to carry my head high”
“wear a more than commonly…
grave countenance before the public”
“I concealed…
my pleasures”
“I stood already committed…
to a profound duplicity of life”
“many a man would have…
even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of”
“from the high views I had set before…
I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame”
“the exciting nature..
of my aspirations”
“provinces of good and ill…
which divide and compound man’s dual nature”
“I was driven to reflect deeply…
and inveterately on that hard law of life”
“which lies at the root of religion…
and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress”
“a double…
dealer”
“I was no more myself when I laid aside…
restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering” “
“it changed the direction of…
my scientific studies”
“led wholly towards the..
mystic and the transcendental”
“that man is not truly one..
but truly two”
“I learned to recognise…
the thorough and primitive duality of man”
“it was only because I was…
radically both”
“I had learned to dwell…
with pleasure, as a beloved daydream”
“I knew well that I risked…
death”
“any drug that so potently…
controlled and shook the very fortress of identity”
“the temptation of a discovery…
so singular and profound”
“with a strong glow of courage…
drank off the potion”
“the most racking pangs succeeded…
a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea and a horror of the spirit”
