Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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