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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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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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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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