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?
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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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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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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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