Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEWhat I’d like to be above all is a writer.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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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.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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