But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEMan 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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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 sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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