However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
JULES VERNEThe Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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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.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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