Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNEIt is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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