Jules Verne Quotes
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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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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There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.