It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
JULES VERNEIt 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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