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.
JULES VERNEThe human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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What you do for money you do badly.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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When 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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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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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