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?
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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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 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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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