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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.

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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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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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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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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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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