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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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