I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
JULES VERNEWe may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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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 is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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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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