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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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