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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

Jules Verne

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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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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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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What darkness to you is light to me
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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