Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNEOn 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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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