"I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success."
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"What I'd like to be above all is a writer."
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"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth."
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"The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff."
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"Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another."
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"I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life."
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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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"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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"Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing."
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"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."
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"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."
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"The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?"
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"A scholar has to know a little of everything."
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"I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time."
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"There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time"
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"Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth."
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"The earth does not need new continents, but new men."
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"Anything a man can imagine, another can create"
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"I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air."
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