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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
Exploration
Curiosity
Pay
Wanted
Even
Life
Observed

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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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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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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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