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Herbert George Wells, plus connu sous la signature H. G. Wells, né le 21 septembre 1866 à Bromley dans le Kent et mort le 13 août 1946 à Londres, est un écrivain britannique surtout connu aujourd'hui pour ses romans de science-fiction. Il fut cependant également l'auteur de nombreux romans de satire sociale, d'œuvres de prospective, de réflexions politiques et sociales ainsi que d'ouvrages de vulgarisation touchant aussi bien à la biologie, à l'histoire qu'aux questions sociales. Il est considéré comme le père de la science-fiction contemporaine. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. septembre 1866 – 13. août 1946  •  Autres noms H.G. Wells, Герберт Уэллс
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“Notre véritable État […] doit être dès maintenant ce nouvel État fédéral mondial […]. Notre vraie nationalité est le genre humain.”

Herbert George Wells livre The Outline of History

Our true State [...] must be now this nascent Federal World State [...]. Our true nationality is mankind.
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The Outline of History, 1919

“Toute la vie est changement.”

Herbert George Wells livre Enfants des étoiles

Enfants des étoiles, 1939

“Beaucoup de vérités ont été dites en plaisantant, et nous possédons indiscutablement dans les Martiens l'accomplissement réel de cette suppression du côté animal de l'organisme par l'intelligence. Il est, à mon avis, absolument admissible que les Martiens puissent descendre d'êtres assez semblables à nous, par suite d'un développement graduel du cerveau et des mains - ces dernières se transformant en deux faisceaux de tentacules - aux dépens du reste du corps. Sans le corps, du cerveau naîtrait naturellement une intelligence plus égoîste, ne possédant plus rien du substratum émotionnel de l'être humain.”

Herbert George Wells livre La Guerre des mondes

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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898

“Or, chaque fois que les choses sont telles qu’un tas de gens éprouvent le besoin de s’en mêler, les faibles, et ceux qui le deviennent à force de trop réfléchir, aboutissent toujours à une religion de Rien-Faire, très pieuse et très élevée, et finissent par se soumettre à la persécution et à la volonté du Seigneur. Vous avez déjà dû remarquer cela aussi. C’est de l’énergie à l’envers dans une rafale de terreur. Les cages de ceux-là seront pleines de psaumes, de cantiques et de piété, et ceux qui sont d’une espèce moins simple se tourneront sans doute vers – comment appelez-vous cela?”

Herbert George Wells livre La Guerre des mondes

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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898

“Cependant, par-delà le gouffre de l’espace, des esprits qui sont à nos esprits ce que les nôtres sont à ceux des bêtes qui périssent, des intellects vastes, calmes et impitoyables, considéraient cette terre avec des yeux envieux, dressaient lentement et sûrement leurs plans pour la conquête de notre monde.”

Herbert George Wells livre La Guerre des mondes

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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898

“Avant que nous les jugions trop sévèrement, nous devons nous souvenir à quelle destruction totale et impitoyable notre propre espèce s'est livrée, non seulement sur les animaux, comme le bison ou le dodo, mais aussi sur ses propres races inférieures. Les Tasmaniens, malgré leur apparence humaine, furent entièrement éliminés en cinquante ans dans une guerre d'extermination menée par des immigrants européens. Sommes nous de tels apôtres de miséricorde que nous puissions nous plaindre si les Martiens ont mené contre nous une guerre semblable?”

Herbert George Wells livre La Guerre des mondes

And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
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La Guerre des mondes (The War of Worlds), 1898

Herbert George Wells: Citations en anglais

“Raymond Passworthy: But… we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little… little animals.”

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

Things to Come (1936)

“It seemed to me that all over the world intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered, restrained, and impoverished, by a mere uncritical adhesion to traditional governments, traditional ideas of economic life, and traditional forms of behaviour, and that these awaking intelligent people must constitute first a protest and then a creative resistance to the inertia that was stifling and threatening us. These people I imagined would say first, "We are drifting; we are doing nothing worth while with our lives. Our lives are dull and stupid and not good enough."”

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H. G. Wells livre The Open Conspiracy

The Open Conspiracy (1928)

“I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.”

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The Informative Content of Education http://books.google.com/books?&id=vLs4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+believe+that+the+crazy+combative+patriotism+that+plainly+threatens+to+destroy+civilisation+to-day+is+very+largely+begotten+by+the+schoolmaster+and+the+schoolmistress+in+their+history+lessons+They+take+the+growing+mind+at+a+naturally+barbaric+phase+and+they+inflame+and+fix+its+barbarism%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage Speech http://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha37adva#page/242/mode/2up given at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham, England on 2 September 1937

“A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enourmously destructive and entirely indecisive.”

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H. G. Wells livre The War in the Air

The War in the Air (1907), Ch. VIII, §1

“It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it—and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons—now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!”

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

Source: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 13: Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions

“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Invisible Man

Source: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 10: Mr. Marvel's Visit To Iping

“You see, I went on with this research just the way it led me. That is the only way I ever heard of true research going. I asked a question, devised some method of obtaining an answer, and got — a fresh question. Was this possible or that possible? You cannot imagine what this means to an investigator, what an intellectual passion grows upon him! You cannot imagine the strange, colourless delight of these intellectual desires!”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains

“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.”

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H. G. Wells livre Joan and Peter

Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)

“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Outline of History

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

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk

“I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.”

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An Experiment in Autobiography http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/wellshg-autobiography/wellshg-autobiography-00-h-dir/wellshg-autobiography-00-h.html (1934)

“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

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The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, Ch. 11 (1931)

“And here one may note a curious comparison which can be made between this [ascidian] life-history and that of many a respectable pinnacle and gargoyle on the social fabric. Every respectable citizen of the professional classes passes through a period of activity and imagination, of "liveliness and eccentricity," of "Sturm und Drang." He shocks his aunts. Presently, however, he realizes the sober aspect of things. He becomes dull; he enters a profession; suckers appear on his head; and he studies. Finally, by virtue of these he settles down—he marries. All his wild ambitions and subtle æsthetic perceptions atrophy as needless in the presence of calm domesticity. He secretes a house, or "establishment," round himself, of inorganic and servile material. His Bohemian tail is discarded. Henceforth his life is a passive receptivity to what chance and the drift of his profession bring along; he lives an almost entirely vegetative excrescence on the side of a street, and in the tranquillity of his calling finds that colourless contentment that replaces happiness.”

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H. G. Wells livre Zoological Retrogression

Zoological Retrogression (1891)

“These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted. I have studied for years, gaining in knowledge as I go. I see you look horrified, and yet I am telling you nothing new. It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 14: Doctor Moreau Explains

“For adaptations based on the novel see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation).”

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H. G. Wells livre La Guerre des mondes

The War of the Worlds (1898)

“So indurated was I at that time to the abomination of the place, that I heard without a touch of emotion the puma victim begin another day of torture. It met its persecutor with a shriek, almost exactly like that of an angry virago.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 17: A Catastrophe

“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 blind Fate, a vast pitiless Mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence; and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their instincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its incessant wheels.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 16: How the Beast Folk Tasted Blood

“I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save myself from the suspicion of insanity. My memory of the Law, of the two dead sailors, of the ambuscades of the darkness, of the body in the canebrake, haunted me; and, unnatural as it seems, with my return to mankind came, instead of that confidence and sympathy I had expected, a strange enhancement of the uncertainty and dread I had experienced during my stay upon the island. No one would believe me; I was almost as queer to men as I had been to the Beast People. I may have caught something of the natural wildness of my companions. They say that terror is a disease, and anyhow I can witness that for several years now a restless fear has dwelt in my mind, such a restless fear as a half-tamed lion cub may feel.”

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H. G. Wells livre The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 22: The Man Alone

“I do not deny that force has to be used, but I think the forms of the struggle should fit as closely as possible to the opportunities presented by the existing laws, which must be defended against reactionary attacks. There is no need to disorganise the old system, because it is disorganising itself enough as it is. That is why it seems to me insurrection against the old orders, against the law, is obsolete, old-fashioned.”

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H. G. Wells

“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 15

“The authorities in Soviet Russia seem as timorous about subversive propaganda as Conservative old ladies in England. Russia is still a fastness of orthodoxy, even if the guardianship of orthodoxy has changed hands.”

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“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 19

“We want a common law for Africa, a general Declaration of Rights, of certain elementary rights, and we want a common authority to which the black man and the native tribe may appeal for justice.”

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H. G. Wells

In The Fourth Year (1918)

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