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1 " Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.[Said after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783] "
― Jacques Charles
