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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!

Jules Verne

What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
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
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
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
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
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
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
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
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth

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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