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.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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