Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
JULES VERNEI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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