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.
JULES VERNESo is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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The 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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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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