Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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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.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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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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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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