What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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 capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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As 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.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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