The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEI 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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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