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.
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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 darkness is to you is light is to me.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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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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