Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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On 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.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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