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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!

Jules Verne

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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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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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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