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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Jules Verne

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
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
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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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
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
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better Crime Theft Yourself
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
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
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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait

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