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.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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?
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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