The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEOn 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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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