Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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