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1 " God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns someone other than myself. "
― Robert Louis Stevenson , The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston
2 " Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame. It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature. In this case, 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. "
