Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
JULES VERNEWhen the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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 that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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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.
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