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.
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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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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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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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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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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