Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEIt’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Man 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.
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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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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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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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.
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