Jules Verne Quotes

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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Jules Verne
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

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Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air?... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.

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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

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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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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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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion.

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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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When science has sent forth her fiat — it is only to hear and obey.

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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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You have carried your investigations as far as terrestrial science allowed you. But on board my vessel you will have an opportunity of seeing what no man has seen before. Thanks to me, our planet will give up her last secrets.

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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe.... [The Americans] are great boilermakers.

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Thus ends the voyage under the seas. What passed during that night — how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom — how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell.

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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

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"Thus, my friends," said Barbicane, "all motion suddenly stopped produces heat. And this theory allows us to infer that the heat of the solar disc is fed by a hail of meteors falling incessantly on its surface. They have even calculated - " "Oh, dear !" murmured Michel, "the figures are coming."

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Either my calculation is correct, or there is no truth in figures.

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Oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

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It is easily worked; it is widely spread in nature, alumina forming the bases of most rocks; it is three times lighter than iron; in short, it seems to have been created expressly to furnish material for our projectile!

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His imagination is a perfect volcano, and to make discoveries in the interest of geology he would sacrifice his life.

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