The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
JULES VERNEMan is never perfect nor contented.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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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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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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