It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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