He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
JULES VERNEScience, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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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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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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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