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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.

Jules Verne

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
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
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
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.
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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
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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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness

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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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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