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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
Everything
Eccentric
English
Especially
Possible

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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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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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