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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
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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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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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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