I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEI 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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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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