I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility
H.G. WellsEveryone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel.
H.G. WellsYou cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady
H.G. WellsStichwörter: sleep work rest work-life-balance
Go away. I'm all right. [last words]
H.G. WellsThe day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth....
H.G. WellsAnd like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the Upperworld people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the eld. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same.
H.G. WellsStichwörter: spiritual-warfare complacency
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.
H.G. WellsFace this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
H.G. WellsNuestro destino sería el de los otros; vivir en acecho y en espera, correr y escondernos; el imperio del hombre y el terror que inspira eran cosas pasadas para siempre.
H.G. WellsBut when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securely prisoned from the cradle to the grave, he has made a discovery. If the world does not please you, you can change it.
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