What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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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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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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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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