Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNETravel 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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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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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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 you do for money you do badly.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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