Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far myexperience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense ofdetachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it al...
The time traveller proceeded, any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thicknessa and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will ex...
There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
There's truths you have to grow into.
We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of it...
We're eatable ants.
What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
Every symbiosis is in its degree underlain by hostility, and only by proper regulation and often elaborate adjustment, can the state of mutual benefit be maintained. Even in human affairs, partnership...
For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your ownpains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions aboutsin,—so long,...
He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days, the years of vicious life he had led since then, one act of sel...
He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation onl...
I wonder, said Graham.Ostrog stared.Must the world go this way? said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. Must it indeedgo in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?What do you mean? said...
It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a wom...
The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
The fact is, the Time Traveller 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, b...
The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.
The stranger swore briefly but vividly.
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