"We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms……" — H.G. Wells
"We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights."
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H.G. Wells
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294 Quotes by H.G. Wells
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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