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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

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Capability Imagination Man Oneself
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Impossible Inspirational Motivational
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Best Better Reserve Surprise Worst
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
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

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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