The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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