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A scholar has to know a little of everything.

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
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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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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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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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 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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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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