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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
Curiosity
Pay
Wanted
Even
Life
Observed
Exploration

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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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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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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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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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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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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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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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