While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
JULES VERNEMan 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 great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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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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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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