I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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