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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
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 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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
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
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing

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