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The doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Robert Louis Stevenson on life and death

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case

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