He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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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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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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