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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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 use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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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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What darkness to you is light to me
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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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