Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
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Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. 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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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
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It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.
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Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
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Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
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The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
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Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
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Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
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It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
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Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.