I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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 Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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 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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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