What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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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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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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