Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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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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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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