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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.

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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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Exploration
Curiosity
Pay
Wanted
Even
Life

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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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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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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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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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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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