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.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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