But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.

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About Jules Verne

Jules Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French writer best known as a pioneering author in science fiction.

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O homem que nasceu para ir à forca, jamais morrerá afogado!

"Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You idiot! — those were mummies; they had been dead for ages."

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.