It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEI wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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 Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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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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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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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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