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  • [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.
  • 5 years ago



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  • Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Needs Quotes , Gone Quotes
  • Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Men Quotes , May Quotes