It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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