The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
JULES VERNEWhen 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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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