I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

H.G. Wells

Tag: wonder

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To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

H.G. Wells

Tag: new-york-city

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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

H.G. Wells

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

H.G. Wells

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So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

H.G. Wells

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Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

H.G. Wells

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

H.G. Wells

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I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer 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.

H.G. Wells

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Cynisism is humour in ill health.

H.G. Wells

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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less skepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby.

H.G. Wells

Tag: intelligence disbelief clever

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