Was there, after all, ever any green door in the wall at all?
H.G. WellsBy our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death.
But did he see like that?
Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
H.G. WellsFew people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
H.G. WellsOne can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative.
H.G. WellsAnd before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.
H.G. WellsWith infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
H.G. WellsHe showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient.
H.G. WellsWhat good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do.
H.G. WellsOver me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence, - the infinite and final Night of space.
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