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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

Jules Verne

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
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
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
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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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
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
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
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Happiness Human Old Race War
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
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

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