The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
JULES VERNENature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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 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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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