An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEAs long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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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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