An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEWell, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEWhatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNEWith time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNEThe sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEThe 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 VERNEWhat use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEMan is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
JULES VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
JULES VERNEAs 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.
JULES VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
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