Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNETravel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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