“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the Upperworld people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the eld. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
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