The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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