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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.

Jules Verne

What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
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
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
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Impossible Inspirational Motivational
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
So 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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance

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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