We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
JULES VERNENature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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