It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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