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Author: H. G. Wells
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H. G. Wells _ The star
You may kill me, but I can hold you - and all the universe for that matter - in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now
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H. G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.
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H. G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds (Falcon
But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. It is disagreeable for me to recall and write these things, but I set them down that my story may lack nothing. Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity.
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H. G. Wells _ The Time Machine
In another place was a vast array of idols-Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.
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H. G. Wells _ The Time Machine
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble.... Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
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H. G. Wells _ H.G. Wells Reader: A Complete
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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H. G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.
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H. G. Wells _ The Time Machine
The Time Traveller {for so it will be convenient to speak of him} was expounding a recondite matter to us."
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H. G. Wells _ The Time Machine
They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.
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H. G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
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H. G. Wells _ The Time Machine
And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.
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H. G. Wells _ The Sleeper Awakes
You teach them very litter?""Why should we? It only leads to trouble and discontent. We amuse them.
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