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?
JULES VERNEThe 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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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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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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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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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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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