H.G. Wells
"The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified."
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"The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified."
"أما الخِرَق البنية المتفحمة التي كانت تتدلى من جوانبه، فقد أدركتُ في الحال أنها بقايا متحللة من كتب. لقد تفتتت منذ زمن بعيد، وزال عنها كل أثر للطباعة. لكن هنا وهناك كانت توجد ألواح خشبية ملتوية ومقابض معدنية متصدعة، تحكي القصة بوضوح كافٍ. لو كنتُ رجل أدب، لربما أسهبتُ في الوعظ حول عبثية كل طموح. لكن الأمر كان على خلاف ذلك، فالشيء الذي ضربني بقوة أشد هو الهدر الهائل للجهد الذي شهدت عليه هذه البرية الكئيبة من الورق المتعفن."
H.G. Wells
"The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky."
"تجدد بهاء الليل الساكن فشفاه. كانت القمر قد تجاوزت كبد السماء الآن، متجهة نحو الغرب. كانت بدراً كاملاً، شديد الإشراق، تعبر سماء زرقاء خالية."
H.G. Wells
"Our true nationality is mankind."
"جنسيتنا الحقيقية هي الإنسانية."
H.G. Wells
"[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull."
H.G. Wells
"Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open.'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but eight-and-twenty.' She swayed her head slowly from side to side. 'A many things to see and sorrow for.' ("The Red Room")"
H.G. Wells
"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. There is 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. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends."
H.G. Wells
"If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G. K. C.'s. Bless you."
H.G. Wells
"But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves."
H.G. Wells
"A boy is a creature of odd feelings."
H.G. Wells
"Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure."
H.G. Wells
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
H.G. Wells
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
H.G. Wells
"Advertising is legalized lying."
H.G. Wells
"We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be."
H.G. Wells
"My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration."
H.G. Wells
"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."
H.G. Wells
"There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard."
H.G. Wells
"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history."
H.G. Wells
"The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature."
H.G. Wells
"Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon."
H.G. Wells
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