He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
JULES VERNEI can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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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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