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.
JULES VERNEMan is never perfect nor contented.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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