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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

Jules Verne

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
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
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
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
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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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
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
So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
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
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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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
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
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
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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Better Book Growth Opinion Reading
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 may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

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