But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEWith time and thought, one can do a good job.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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As 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.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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