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.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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 chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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What you do for money you do badly.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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