The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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