Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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