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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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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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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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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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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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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What darkness to you is light to me
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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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