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chapter 10 Flashcards

Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case

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“with every guarantee…

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of an honourable and distinguished future”

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“I found it hard to reconcile…

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with my imperious desire to carry my head high”

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“wear a more than commonly…

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grave countenance before the public”

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“I concealed…

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my pleasures”

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“I stood already committed…

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to a profound duplicity of life”

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“many a man would have…

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even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of”

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“from the high views I had set before…

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I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame”

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“the exciting nature..

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of my aspirations”

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“provinces of good and ill…

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which divide and compound man’s dual nature”

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“I was driven to reflect deeply…

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and inveterately on that hard law of life”

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“which lies at the root of religion…

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and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress”

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“a double…

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dealer”

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“I was no more myself when I laid aside…

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restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering” “

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“it changed the direction of…

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my scientific studies”

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“led wholly towards the..

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mystic and the transcendental”

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“that man is not truly one..

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but truly two”

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“I learned to recognise…

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the thorough and primitive duality of man”

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“it was only because I was…

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radically both”

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“I had learned to dwell…

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with pleasure, as a beloved daydream”

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“I knew well that I risked…

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death”

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“any drug that so potently…

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controlled and shook the very fortress of identity”

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“the temptation of a discovery…

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so singular and profound”

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“with a strong glow of courage…

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drank off the potion”

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“the most racking pangs succeeded…

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a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea and a horror of the spirit”

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“I felt younger…

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lighter, happier in body”

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“an unknown but not an innocent…

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freedom of the soul”

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“at the first breath of this new life….

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to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil”

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“braced and delighted me…

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like wine”

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“exulting in the freshness…

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of these sensations”

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“a stranger…

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in my own house”

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“I saw for the first time…

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the appearance of Edward Hyde”

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“the evil side…

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of my nature”

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“the course of my life…

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which had been, after all, nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and control”

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“Edward Hyde was so much smaller…

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slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll”

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“even as good shine upon the countenance…

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of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other”

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“evil besides…

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“which I still believe to be the lethal side of man”

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“had left on that body…

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an imprint of deformity and decay”

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“This too..

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was myself. It seemed natural and human”

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“because all human beings…

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as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil”

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“Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind…

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was pure evil”

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“from a house…

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that was no longer mine”

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“shook the doors of the prisonhouse…

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of my disposition and like the captives of Philipi, that which stood within ran forth”

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“that my new power…

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tempted me until I fell into slavery”

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“But in the hands of Edward Hyde…

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they soon began to turn toward the monstrous”

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“drinking pleasure with bestial avidity..

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from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone”

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“the hand of Henry Jekyll was….

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professional in shape and size: it was large, firm, white and comely”

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“was lean, corder, knuckly…

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of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hyde”

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“before terror…

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woke up in my breast”

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“I had gone to bed..

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Henry Jekyll, I had awakened Edward Hyde”

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“Jekyll had more than a fathers interest…

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Hyde had more than a son’s indifference”

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“I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor…

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surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes”

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“bad a resolute farewell to the liberty..

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the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the disguise of hyde”

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“the complete moral insensibility…

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and insensate readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hyde”

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“my devil had been long caged…

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he came out roaring”

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“I declare, at lease, before God…

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that no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation”

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“instantly the spirit…

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of hell awoke in me and raged”

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“I mauled the unresisting body…

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tasting delight from every blow”

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“a cold thrill…

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of terror”

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“Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears if gratitude and remorse…

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had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God”

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“I followed it up from the days of childhood…

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when I had walked with my father’s hand”

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“the damned horrors…

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of the evenings”

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“I sought with tears and prayers…

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to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me”

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“it was not only a crime…

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it had been a tragic folly”

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“Jekyll was now my city of refuge…

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let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him”

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“A moment before I had been safe of all men’s respect…

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and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows”

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“I gnashed my teeth…

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upon him with a gust of devillish fury”

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“I looked about me…

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with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble”

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english lit- jekyll and hyde (15 decks)

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