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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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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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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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....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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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror what pencil can portray it?
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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 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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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What darkness to you is light to me
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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