“It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”
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“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him.”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!"
"And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”
― The Mysterious Island
"And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”
― The Mysterious Island
“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
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