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Herbert George Wells, conhecido como H. G. Wells , foi um escritor britânico e membro da Sociedade Fabiana.

Nascido num distrito da Grande Londres, na juventude foi, sem sucesso, aprendiz de negociante de panos - a sua experiência nesta ocupação veio mais tarde a ser usada como material para o romance Kipps. Em 1883, tornou-se professor na Midhurst Grammar School, até ganhar uma bolsa na Escola Normal de Ciências em Londres, para estudar biologia com T. H. Huxley.

Nos seus primeiros romances, descritos, ao tempo, como "romances científicos", inventou uma série de temas que foram mais tarde aprofundados por outros escritores de ficção científica, e que entraram na cultura popular em trabalhos como A Máquina do Tempo, O Homem Invisível e A Guerra dos Mundos. Outros romances, de natureza não fantástica, foram bem recebidos, sendo exemplos a sátira à publicidade edwardiana Tono-Bungay e Kipps.e

Visionário, chegou a discutir em obras do início do século XX questões ainda atuais, como a ameaça de guerra nuclear, o advento de Estado Mundial e a Ética na manipulação de animais.

Desde muito cedo na sua carreira, Wells sentiu que devia haver uma maneira melhor de organizar a sociedade, e escreveu alguns romances utópicos. Começavam em geral com o mundo a caminhar inexoravelmente em direcção de uma catástrofe, até que as pessoas se apercebiam da existência de uma maneira melhor para viver: ou através dos gases misteriosos de um cometa, que fariam com que as pessoas começassem subitamente a comportar-se racionalmente , ou pela tomada do poder por um conselho mundial de cientistas, como em The Shape of Things to Come , livro que o próprio Wells adaptou mais tarde para o filme de Alexander Korda Daqui a Cem Anos . Aqui descrevia-se, com demasiada exactidão, a guerra que estava a chegar, com cidades a serem destruídas por bombardeamentos aéreos.

Ele analisa a dicotomia entre a natureza e a educação e questiona a humanidade em livros como A Ilha do Dr. Moreau. Nem todos os seus romances terminam em feliz Utopia, como mostra o distópico When the Sleeper Awakes. "A Ilha do Dr. Moreau" ainda é mais sombria. O narrador, após ficar encurralado numa ilha cheia de animais vivissectados até se transformarem em seres humanos, acaba por regressar à Inglaterra e, tal como Gulliver no regresso do país dos Houyhnhms, vê-se incapaz de afastar a percepção dos membros da sua própria espécie como bestas só ligeiramente civilizadas, regressando a pouco e pouco à sua natureza animal.

Wells chamava às suas ideias políticas "socialistas", e com o seu gosto por utopias, olhou inicialmente com bastante simpatia para as tentativas de Lenin de reconstruir a destroçada economia russa, como mostra o seu relato de uma visita ao país . No entanto, desiludiu-se com a crescente rigidez doutrinária dos bolcheviques e, após um encontro com Josef Stálin, convenceu-se de que a revolução correra terrivelmente mal. Nisto foi provavelmente mais clarividente do que muitos dos intelectuais do seu tempo.

À medida que envelhecia, Wells foi-se tornando cada vez mais pessimista acerca do futuro da humanidade, como é sugerido pelo título do seu último livro, Mind at the End of its Tether. Os seus últimos livros tendiam a pregar mais do que a contar uma história, e não tinham a energia e inventiva dos trabalhos iniciais. É conhecido como o pai da ficção científica.

✵ 21. Setembro 1866 – 13. Agosto 1946  •  Outros nomes H.G. Wells, Герберт Уэллс
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Herbert George Wells Frases famosas

“Vai chegar um momento no dia em que você já escreveu suas páginas pela manhã, respondeu a sua correspondência à tarde, e não tem mais nada para fazer. Então chega aquela hora que você fica entediado; esta é a hora para o sexo.”

Herbert George Wells

Citado em Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography (1964)

“Crime e vidas ruins são a medida da falha do Estado, todo crime no final é o crime da comunidade.”

Herbert George Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State&#x27;s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. <br class="br">A Modern Utopia - Página 86 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=w_HY2By17g4C&amp;pg=PA86, Herbert George Wells - Forgotten Books, 1936, ISBN 1606201840, 9781606201848 - 392 páginas <br class="br">Modern Utopia

“O serpear da humanidade numa só comunidade não implica a criação de uma comunidade homogênea, mas o contrário; a utilização bem-vinda e adequada da qualidade distintiva numa atmosfera de entendimento… Comunidades com um só padrão, como caixas de soldados de brinquedo, são coisas do passado, do que do futuro.”

Herbert George Wells livro The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“A indignação moral é a inveja com uma auréola.”

Herbert George Wells

Variante: A indignação moral não é mais do que inveja com uma auréola.

“Os quatro Evangelhos, todos eles, dão-nos o retrato de uma personalidade muito definida, obrigando-nos a dizer: Esse homem existiu. Isso não pode ser inventado.”

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Herbert George Wells frases e citações

“Trata-se duma fantasia em escala astronomica sobre a futura humanidade, uma sinistra mistura de biologia e satira. O autor vê uma especie humana, depois de terriveis guerras, unificando-se afinal, sob o controle americano, em forma dum estado mundial - um estado ao tipo plutocratico que sofre uma incrivel degeneração moral e intelectual e desfecha numa nova Idade Media. O Homo sapiens é então exterminado pela catastrofe por ele mesmo provocada, e apenas uns tantos individuos sobrevivem obscuramente para se tornarem os progenitores de duas especies de Homo em conflito que imediatamente começam a propagar-se. As mais remotas especulações de Stapledon sobre a sucessão dos ultimos Hominideos e sua final extinção muito vivas e curiosas, não cabem, entretanto, aqui. Mas o livro estabelece a probabilidde da falencia da civilização contemporanea no barrar a guerra e evitar a catastrofe economica.”

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"Apareceu ultimamente um curioso livro de Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men.
A CONTRUÇÃO DO MUNDO, do original "THE WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKIND", H. G. Wells, COMPANHIA EDITORA NACIONAL - 1943, Tradução de Monteiro Lobato, Vol. 2, Cap. XVI, pg. 355.

“Em terra de cegos, quem tem um olho é rei.”

Herbert George Wells livro The Country of the Blind

Fonte:"The Country of the Blind"

“Se você caiu ontem, fique de pé hoje.”

Herbert George Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
The anatomy of frustration: a modern synthesis - página 216, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan Company, 1936 - 217 páginas

“Em todo o mundo da Utopia não ha carne. Antes havia. Mas agora não conseguimos suportar a ideia de matadouros. E numa população em que toda a gente é culta e como um nível de aperfeiçoamento físico semelhante, é praticamente impossível encontrar alguém que vá talhar um boi ou um porco morto. Nunca nos acostumamos com a questão higiénica do consumo de carne. Esse outro aspecto fez-nos decidir. Ainda me consigo lembrar, de quando era rapaz, do contentamento que o encerramento do ultimo matadouro gerou.”

Herbert George Wells

Em Modern Utopia, Capítulo Nove, secção 5
Modern Utopia

“Um tempo quando todas as coisas boas serão para todos homens pode estar mais perto do que pensamos. Cada um que acredita que traz o bom tempo mais perto; cada coração que falha o atrasa.”

Herbert George Wells livro The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“A nossa verdadeira nacionalidade é a humanidade.”

Herbert George Wells livro The Outline of History

Our true nationality is mankind.
The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind - página 1087, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan Co., 1921 - 1171 páginas
The Outline of History (1920)

“História humana na essência é história das idéias.”

Herbert George Wells livro The Outline of History

Human history is in essence a history of ideas
The outline of history: being a plain history of life and mankind - Volume 2, página 572, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan company,1920
The Outline of History (1920)

“A crise de hoje é a anedota de amanhã.”

Herbert George Wells

Variante: A crise de hoje é a piada de amanhã.

“Os ideais são o trajo de gala da alma.”

Herbert George Wells

“Publicidade é mentira legalizada.”

Herbert George Wells

“Não devemos permitir que o relógio e o calendário nos ceguem para o fato de que cada momento da vida é um milagre e um mistério.”

Herbert George Wells

“Os crimes e as más vidas dão-nos a medida do fracasso de um Estado. Todos os crimes são, afinal, o crime de uma comunidade.”

Herbert George Wells

“A grandeza de homem pode ser medida por “Aquilo que ele deixa para crescer, e se ele introduziu uma nova mentalidade com a certeza que perdurou após ele”. A julgar por este teste, Jesus ocupa o primeiro lugar.”

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells: Frases em inglês

“Over me, around me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal; that which was before the beginning, and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence—the infinite and final Night of space.”

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H. G. Wells livro The First Men in the Moon

Fonte: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 19: Mr. Bedford Alone

“Mr. Duff Cooper, landing at New York, cools his mind by blowing off about a forthcoming revolt of the German Army and a return to monarchy in Germany, a Holy Roman Empire, I suppose, leading that new Crusade of which the Pope has been talking about recent against anti-God Russia. But quite a lot of radical people in the world, in spite of the folly, stupidity and brutality of the Stalin–Molotov attack on Finland, are averse from this idea of a religious war against Socialism and Atheism.”

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The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Invisible Man

Fonte: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 6: The Furniture that Went Mad

“Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.””

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The New Faust https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=%22We+are+ourselves%2C+we+are+ourselves%2C+and+we%27ll+never+be+anyone+else.%22&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8#channel=fs&amp;q=Marguerite%2C+joyfully:+%E2%80%9CWe+are+ourselves%2C+my+dear%2C+we+are+ourselves.+We%27 (in Nash&#x27;s Pall Magazine, December 1936 – adaptation of &quot;The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham&quot;)

“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”

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H. G. Wells livro Boon

Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)

“Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.”

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The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 1

“In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”

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H. G. Wells livro The War of the Worlds

Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
The War of the Worlds (1898)

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Discovery of the Future

The Discovery of the Future (1901)

“These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no place in the new free world that dawns upon mankind.”

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The Rights of the World Citizen (1942); a revised edition of The Rights of Man

“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”

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H. G. Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Fonte: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6

“Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet — so relative is our idea of grace — my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Island of Doctor Moreau

Fonte: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 15: Concerning the Beast Folk

“…there has accumulated a vast tangle of emergency legislation, regulations, barriers and restraints, out of all proportion to and often missing and distorting the needs of the situation. For the restoration and modernisation of human civilization, this exaggerated outlawing of the fellow citizen whom we see fit to suspect as a traitor or revolutionary and also of the stranger within our gates, has to be restrained and brought back within the scheme of human rights.”

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The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)

“I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.”

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What is Coming? (1916)

“You have been amazingly energetic and clever," this letter ran, "though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night's rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me—the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch—the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example—a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes—Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. Today Kemp is to die.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Invisible Man

Fonte: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 27: The Seige of Kemp's House

“Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…Not a single one but has at some time wept.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Outline of History

Fonte: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40

“Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

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H. G. Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Fonte: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8

“The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding… Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.”

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H. G. Wells livro The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

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Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
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“Our minds fall very readily under the spell of such unmitigated words as Purity and Chastity. Only death beyond decay, absolute non-existence, can be Pure and Chaste. Life is impurity, fact is impure. Everything has traces of alien matter; our very health is dependent on parasitic bacteria; the purest blood in the world has a tainted ancestor, and not a saint but has evil thoughts…. This stupidity, this unreasonable idealism of the common mind, fills life to-day with cruelties and exclusions, with partial suicides and secret shames. But we are born impure, we die impure; it is a fable that spotless white lilies sprang from any saint's decay, and the chastity of a monk or nun is but introverted impurity. We have to take life valiantly on these conditions and make such honour and beauty and sympathy out of our confusions, gather such constructive experience, as we may…. Life is that, and abstinence is for the most part a mere evasion of life.”

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Fonte: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4225 (1908), Ch.3, section 20, Of Abstinences and Disciplines

“When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”

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1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control (1937) edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre

“The more I thought it over, Kemp, the more I realised what a helpless absurdity an Invisible Man was—in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city. Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages. That afternoon it seemed all disappointment. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got. Ambition—what is the good of pride of place when you cannot appear there? What is the good of the love of woman when her name must needs be Delilah? I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy, for sport. What was I to do? And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, a swathed and bandaged caricature of a man!”

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H. G. Wells livro The Invisible Man

Fonte: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 23: In Drury Lane

“The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.”

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H. G. Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Fonte: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 3

“Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being. Being, indeed! – there is no being, but a universal becoming of individualities, and Plato turned his back os truth when he turned towards his museum of specific ideals.”

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H. G. Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Fonte: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 1, sect. 5

“Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.”

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The Fate of Man, ch. 26 (1939)

“"Pull yourself together," said the Voice, "for you have to do the job I've chosen for you."Mr. Marvel blew out his cheeks, and his eyes were round."I've chosen you," said the Voice. "You are the only man except some of those fools down there, who knows there is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my helper. Help me—and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power."”

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H. G. Wells livro The Invisible Man

Fonte: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 9: Mr. Thomas Marvel

“Now I am prepared to maintain," said Chaffery, proceeding with his proposition, "that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilisation made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry … Were I not of a profoundly indolent, restless, adventurous nature, and horribly averse to writing, I would make a great book of this and live honored by every profound duffer in the world.”

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H. G. Wells livro Love and Mr Lewisham

Love and Mr Lewisham (1899), Ch. 23

“In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.”

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H. G. Wells livro A Modern Utopia

Fonte: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 9, sect. 5

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