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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

H. G. Wells

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H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.
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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.
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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.
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I write to cover a frame of ideas.
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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
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This has ever been the fate of energy in security it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.
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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
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The War That Will End War.
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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
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