Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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 use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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