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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.

Jules Verne

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait

I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.

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