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| fac936f | Cooking for him is a craft of spice and oil. His food burns the tongue and clogs the arteries. When he looks around him here, he does not see prickly leaves and hairy little berries for an effervescent salad, tan stalks of wheat for a heavenly balloon of sone-ground, stove-top-baked flatbread. He sees instead units of backbreaking toil. He sees hours and days and weeks and years. He sees the labor by which a farmer exchanges his allocation .. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 90d7814 | Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 2ad9257 | As long as this heart goes on beating, I can't admit that any creature endowed with will-power should ever despair. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2bc576d | Avevano cominciato, entrambi, a essere penetrati, ma non si erano ancora dati un bacio. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 62315e2 | depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 61c0edf | La science, mon garcon, est faite d'erreurs, mais d'erreurs qu'il est bon de commettre, car elles menent peu a peu a la verite. | Jules Verne | ||
| 34c6bb0 | In my nervous frame of mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wandering on the legendary castle terrace. | hamlet shakespeare | Jules Verne | |
| 4cf2793 | Here's a remarkable book! What a wonderful book!" he was exclaiming. These ejaculations brought to my mind the fact that my uncle was liable to occasional fits of bibliomania; but no old book had any value in his eyes unless it had the virtue of being nowhere else to be found, or, at any rate, of being illegible." | Jules Verne | ||
| 19d01b4 | El mar es el vehiculo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente, | Jules Verne | ||
| c4939dd | General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five." "No, he didn't--he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle--there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love bat.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 93ef0dd | The | Jules Verne | ||
| 90c14dc | The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to survey the island upon which he and his companions were imprisoned for life perhaps, should the island be situated at a great distance from any land, or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean. | Jules Verne | ||
| cded20e | The ship's officers shared the views of their leader. They could be heard chatting, discussing, arguing, calculating the different chances of an encounter, and observing the vast expanse of the ocean. | Jules Verne | ||
| 24c4d59 | The Chassepot rifle led to the torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting its foot down. At least I hope it will. | Jules Verne | ||
| 23d9cbe | I spent the evening in reading, writing, and thinking. Then drowsiness overtook me, I stretched out on my eelgrass mattress, and I fell into a deep slumber | Jules Verne | ||
| ba099c3 | El desanimo se apodero de todos y abrio una brecha a la incredulidad. Un nuevo sentimiento nos embargo a todos, un sentimiento que se componia de tres decimas de verguenza y siete decimas de furor. | Jules Verne | ||
| ba70737 | Vamos!, si te asustas tan pronto, ?que dejas para mas tarde? | fear inspirational verne | Jules Verne | |
| c0ff37d | is this man, all things considered, to be hated or admired? Is he a victim or a killer? | Jules Verne | ||
| 0aef475 | if by chance this were the last of its race, would it not be better to spare it--in the interest of science? | Jules Verne | ||
| bfe40d5 | If we may die at any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity. | Jules Verne | ||
| d5c0b4b | The unforeseen does not exist, | Jules Verne | ||
| 25877e7 | THREE SECONDS before the arrival of J. B. Hobson's letter, I no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the Northwest Passage. Three seconds after reading this letter from the honorable Secretary of the Navy, I understood at last that my true vocation, my sole purpose in life, was to hunt down this disturbing monster and rid the world of it. | Jules Verne | ||
| a7f4883 | In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species, and varieties. But there his science came to a halt. Classifying was everything to him, so he knew nothing else. | Jules Verne | ||
| 3d77df4 | The lad was thirty years old, and his age to that of his employer was as fifteen is to twenty. Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty. | Jules Verne | ||
| 19ebfc6 | But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience nor annoyance; it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen. | Jules Verne | ||
| b252845 | neither did | Jules Verne | ||
| de50e5a | If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 3dc8c24 | Cred, domnule judecator, ca tinerii astia nu sunt in toate mintile. - Asa e, batrana Kate, asa e, aproba John Proth, luandu-si din nou pasnica stropitoare. Dar ce-i de mirare? Oare cei care se casatoresc sunt vreodata in toate mintile? | Jules Verne | ||
| d74d563 | En este pais todo contribuye a esa poesia natural iniciada en el corazon de los montaneses: Lo mismo sucede en todos los paises montanosos. La imaginacion esta excitada por estas maravillas, y si los griegos hubiesen vivido en una llanura, no hubiesen inventado la mitologia. | Jules Verne | ||
| 00f4bc9 | depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself... | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b1e82db | Despues del exito parecia natural que se apoderase de el el sentimiento de tristeza que suele seguir a los deseos satisfechos. | Jules Verne | ||
| a77eb0d | como esos ninos abandonados a si mismos y no teniendo mas viveres que los existentes en el barco, proveerian a las necesidades de la existencia? Si fuese continente, dado que no podria ser otro que el de la America del Sur, las probabilidades de salvacion serian mayores, porque atravesando el territorio de Chile o de Bolivia, | Jules Verne | ||
| 42b5735 | notsonoblebooks@gmail.com | Jules Verne | ||
| f5416e3 | Well, old Barbicane, they might have cut me into slices, from my feet upwards, before I could have worked out that problem.' 'Because you don't know algebra,' replied | Jules Verne | ||
| 2021f98 | El radio trazado por mi mazo -dijo con aire doctoral, no sin hacer alguna mueca de dolor de vez en cuando- ha | Jules Verne | ||
| d707921 | Este se levanto y saludo sonriendo a la hermosa y azorada muchacha que acababa de excusarse... El artista era el naufrago de Corryvrekan. | Jules Verne | ||
| db3b655 |
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| e2c0230 | Buscaba obtener un efecto de las olas rompiendo en los escollos, y es posible que su bola, como la esponja de no se que pintor de la antiguedad, tirada contra su cuadro, habra producido el efecto que yo con mi pincel buscaba en vano reproducir. | Jules Verne | ||
| 412bde4 | nosotros no hemos visto este rayo que tanto hemos buscado. -Hemos visto algo mejor -dijo en voz baja Helena-. Hemos visto la misma felicidad, la que la leyenda atribuye a la observacion de este fenomeno. Y ya que la hemos encontrado, mi querido Olivier, !no necesitamos nada mas, y podemos ceder a los que no lo conocen y quieren conocerlo, el famoso rayo verde! | Jules Verne | ||
| f787027 | Striking an average of observations taken at different times-- rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long--you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all. | Jules Verne | ||
| e0532de | Pencroff, qui connaissait cinquante-deux manieres d'accommoder les oeufs, n'avait pas le choix en ce moment. Il dut se contenter de les introduire dans les cendres chaudes, et de les laisser durcir a petit feu. | Jules Verne | ||
| d8773e3 | Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth." "And" | Jules Verne | ||
| 92746e1 | They were then crossing a region that was the scene of massacres and burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian sultans, contending for their power amid the most atrocious carnage, never cease. | Jules Verne | ||
| e03cd9b | Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace." I" | Jules Verne |