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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

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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Criminals

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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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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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