What darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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