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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."
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
"There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!"
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
"He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason."
"Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world."
"How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!"
"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."
"Anything you can imagine you can make real."
"All that is impossible remains to be accomplished."
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."
"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
"Look with all your eyes, look."
"The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment."
"Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality."
"An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish."
"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."
"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."
"Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!"