Jules Verne Quotes
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
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And whichever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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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? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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 human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.