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Man is never perfect nor contented.

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
Perfect
Never
Men
Contented

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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
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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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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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