649 Quotes by H. G. Wells


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    I do not know if hell is hot or cold, or what sort of place hell may be, but this I surely know, that if there is any hell at all it will be badly lit. And it will taste like a train.

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    Help me – and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power.” He.

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    Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done.

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    But I was too restless to watch long; I’m too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours – that’s another matter.

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    But to me the future is still black and blank – is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And.

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    The situation was primordial. The Man beneath prevailed for a moment over the civilised superstructure, the Draper. He pushed at the pedals with archaic violence. So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.

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    Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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    There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

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