Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
H.G. WellsThe sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face.
H.G. WellsSecurity sets a premium on feebleness.
H.G. WellsWe all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
H.G. Wells…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
H.G. WellsTags: imagination
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being
H.G. WellsFor it is just this question of pain that parts
us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own
pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about
sin,—so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely
what an animal feels.
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
But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
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