It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEBetter to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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