"Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice……" — Jules Verne
"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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151 Quotes by 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…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect 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…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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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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