“There it 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.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If you need me, use me.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“A blind fate, a vast pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence, and I, Moreau with by his passion for drink, the Beast People, with their instincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its incessant wheels.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
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