H. G. Wells Quotes
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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.
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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
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And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.
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For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.
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Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.