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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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While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.
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To describe my despair would be impossible. No words could tell it. I was buried alive, with the prospect before me of dying of hunger and thirst.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Jules Verne
Born:
February 8, 1828
Died:
March 24, 1905
(aged 77)
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