However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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