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
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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?
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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