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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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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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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion it is the 'Living Infinite.
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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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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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
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