When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
H.G. WellsTag: human-race
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H.G. Wellsone of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
H.G. WellsTag: anger
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
H.G. WellsI saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.
H.G. WellsIt's against reason," said Filby.
"What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
Tag: reason the-time-machine the-time-traveller
El pasado no es más que el principio de un principio.
H.G. WellsThe stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down early and be continuously busy. On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none. His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence. He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
H.G. WellsLooking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
H.G. WellsI perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon the floor.
H.G. WellsTag: island-of-dr-moreau hammock aniticipation
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