History is more real than footnotes in small type which too often sound like an in-house conversation between willing conspirators.
“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
“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
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
― Sceptical Essays
― Sceptical Essays
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
― Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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