The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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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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