Jules Verne Quotes
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.
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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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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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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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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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!
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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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.