Nice Quotes #14: H.G. Wells

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For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house. I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer master, but an animal among animals; under the Martian heel.

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    I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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    Who breaks the Law -’ said Moreau, taking his eyes off his victim and turning towards us. It seemed to me there was a touch of exultation in his voice. ‘- goes back to the House of Pain,’ they all clamoured; ‘goes back to the House of Pain, O Master!

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    For 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.

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    Can an instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?' Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

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    There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and
    not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is
    more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I
    could not live.

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    Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.

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

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    You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.

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    My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

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    The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

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