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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.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Reason, My Friends

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.192, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Truth, Science, Boys

  Jules Verne (1998). “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Negative, Horror

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.243, Jules Verne

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• It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

  Jules Verne

  Done, Earth, Logic

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.82, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Enemy, May

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.357, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• What one man can think, another man can do.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Thinking, Can Do

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Night, Light

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• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

  Jules Verne

  Horror, Scene, Pens

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island”, p.433, Xist Publishing

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• I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you

  Jules Verne

  Queens, Ocean, Who Cares

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• He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Sea, Good Woman

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.12, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Book, Iron, Opinion

  Jules Verne (2008). “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Circles, League

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.165, Jules Verne

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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. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

  Jules Verne

  Blow, Three, World

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• As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

  Jules Verne

  Overcoming, Ferguson, Tone

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Five Weeks In A Balloon / Cinq semaines en ballon (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.13, Jules Verne

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• What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

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  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Heart

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.144, Jules Verne

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• Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

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  Mind, Earth, Masters

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• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

  Jules Verne

  New York, Stars, Ocean

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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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  Mean, Long, Solitude

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.156, Jules Verne

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• Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

  Jules Verne

  Names, Ideas, Two

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.1, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Engineering, Skills, Romance

  Jules Verne (2013). “Invasion of the Sea”, p.209, Wesleyan University Press

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• An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

  Jules Verne

  Criminals, London, Concealed

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.28, Jules Verne

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Order, Oysters

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Struggle, Air

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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.

  Jules Verne

  Squares, Land, Soul

  Jules Verne, George Makepeace Towle (2011). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.84, Lulu.com

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