The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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?
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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