Jules Verne Quotes
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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.
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
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What darkness to you is light to me.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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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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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!