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

Jules Verne

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
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
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
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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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
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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Heart Myself Time
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking

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