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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

Jules Verne

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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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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
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
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
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 Book Growth Opinion Reading
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Action God Greatness Return
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

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