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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Jules Verne

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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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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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