Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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