Jekyll And Hyde Quotes Flashcards

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“I incline…” - Utterson

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“I incline to Cain’s heresy, that if I am to choose between the devil and the deep sea, I would rather not choose at all.”

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“I am ashamed…” - Utterson

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“I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again.”

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“If he be…” - Utterson

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“If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.”

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“I have learned…”- Utterson

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“I have learned to look on life as a progression, and not as a series of isolated acts.”

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“I do not care to…” - Utterson

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“I do not care to hear more on this subject; the sight of you proves that I already know too much.”

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“I am not the first…” - Utterson

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“I am not the first person in this country to have great wealth and to look upon myself as something of a personage.”

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“I can’t pretend…” - Utterson

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“I can’t pretend that I shall ever like him.” - Referencing Hyde to Jekyll at end of chapter 3

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“There is something wrong…” - Utterson

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“There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.”

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“I had taken…” - Utterson

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“I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.”

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“It is one thing…” - Utterson

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“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”

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“All human being…” - Jekyll

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“All human beings… are commingled out of good and evil.”

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“I had learned to…” - Jekyll

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“I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of my sweet-tempered, indulgent, and yet ever-timorous and never-really-knowing Henry Jekyll.”

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“Man is not truly…” - Jekyll

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“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”

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“I stood already…” - Jekyll

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“I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.”

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“I had been obliged…” - Jekyll

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“I had been obliged on more than one occasion to double, and once, with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount; and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow of my contentment.”

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“I had now two…” - Jekyll

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“I had now two characters as well as two professions.”

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“It was a curse…” - Jekyll

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“It was a curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were this bound together - that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.”

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“I felt…” - Jekyll

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“I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a mill-race in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of soul.”

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“It was Hyde…” - Jekyll

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“It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired.”

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“I have brought…” - Jekyll

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“I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name.”

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damned … (regarding Hyde)

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damned Juggernaut

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black sne… (regarding Hyde)

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black sneering coolness

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murderous mixture… (regarding Hyde)

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murderous mixture of timidity and boldness

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A dismal… (regarding Hyde)

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“A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet”

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Snarled… (regarding Hyde)

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Snarled aloud into a savage laugh”

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Clubbed… (regarding Hyde)

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Clubbed him to the earth…with ape-like fury”

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Satan’s… (regarding Hyde)

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“Satan’s signature upon a face”

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That masked…

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“That masked thing like a monkey jumped from among the chemicals”