“Can an instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?' Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”
― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist
“Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.”
― King Solomon's Mines
― King Solomon's Mines
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