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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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
English
Especially
Possible
Everything
Eccentric

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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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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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