Jules Verne Quotes

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.
JULES VERNE

Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
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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Alone Believe Destroy Fortune Friendship Quick Reason Solitude
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Fortune Travel Wealth Yourself
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water

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