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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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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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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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