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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?

Jules Verne

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
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
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
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Creation Imagination Inspirational Invention Myself Possible Reality
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence

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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