Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEOn the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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Travel 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.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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