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.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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