Jules Verne Quotes
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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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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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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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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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
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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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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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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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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.
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An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
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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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....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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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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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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It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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