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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

Jules Verne

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful

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