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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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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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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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 use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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What darkness to you is light to me
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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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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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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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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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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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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