Jules Verne Quotes
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
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Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.
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It was amazing to be on the map, to be recognised by other artists, and to be so successful.
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Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.
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What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.
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My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.
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The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.
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I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.
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My life is together, both professionally and socially.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.
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But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blowing of the wind across the joyous fields.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
