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.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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