Jules Verne Quotes

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The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Jules Verne

With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?

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Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.

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There is no one among you, my brave colleagues, who has not seen the Moon, or at least, heard speak of it.

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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

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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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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

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But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

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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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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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But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...

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I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.

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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

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The Cambridge Observatory called a special meeting; and with that composure which distinguishes learned bodies in general, peacefully discussed the scientific bearings of the question.

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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

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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. 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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All things are simple... when you know how to do them.

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