The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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