H. G. Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

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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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To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, 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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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: 'This time I will burn out all the animal; this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all, what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making.

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He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.

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

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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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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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