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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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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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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Anything you can imagine you 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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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
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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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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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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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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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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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