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  1. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surrounds. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never dies, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau--and for what? It was the wantonness of it that stirred me.
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  2. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    You're a solemn prig, Prendick, a silly ass! You're always fearing and fancying. We're on the edge of things. I'm bound to cut my throat tomorrow. I'm going to have a damned Bank Holiday tonight.
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  3. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    -¡Este estúpido mundo! -dijo-. ¡Qué complicado es todo! No he vivido hasta ahora. Me pregunto cuándo empezaré. Dieciséis años tiranizado por niñeras y maestros de escuela, sometido a su santa voluntad; cinco años en Londres estudiando medicina con ahínco: mala comida, alojamientos miserables, ropas raídas, vicios lamentables. Jamás conocí nada mejor. Luego, empujado a esta isla infernal... ¡Diez años aquí! ¿Y todo para qué, Prendick? ¿Somos como las pompas de jabón que soplan los niños?
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  4. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
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  5. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    It was some time before I could summon resolution to go down through the trees and bushes upon the flank of the headland to the beach. At last I did it at a run; and as I emerged from the thicket upon the sand, I heard some other body come crashing after me. At that I completely lost my head with fear, and began running along the sand. Forthwith there came the swift patter of soft feet in pursuit. I gave a wild cry, and redoubled my pace. Some dim, black things about three or four times the size of rabbits went running or hopping up from the beach towards the bushes as I passed.
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  6. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.
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  7. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.
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  8. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.
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  9. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?
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  10. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    you have saved my life." "Chance," he answered. "Just chance." "I prefer to make my thanks to the accessible agent." "Thank no one. You had the need, and I had the knowledge; and I injected and fed you much as I might have collected a specimen. I was bored and wanted something to do. If I'd been jaded that day, or hadn't liked your face, well - it's a curious question where you would have been now!" This damped my mood a little. "At
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  11. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained
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  12. H.G. Wells _ The Island of Doctor Moreau

    I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A
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