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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

Jules Verne

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth

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