Liberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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