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Jules Verne
French
Author
Born:
Feb 8
,
1828
Died:
Mar 24
,
1905
Cannot
Life
Man
Nature
Will
You
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Andre Malraux
Eliphas Levi
Marcel Proust
Michel Houellebecq
Mireille Guiliano
Victor Hugo
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Jules Verne
Time
Together
Space
Enemies
Will
Wind
Fall
Other
Meet
Crowd
Throw
Open
Put
Come
Tide
Without
Inevitably
Question
Ships
Place
Midst
Planets
Sea
Last
Two
Fatality
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
Cats
Walk
Pet
Cloud
Believe
Earth
Spirits
Could
Through
Cat
Come
Sure
Without
Am
Coming
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.
Jules Verne
Life
Nature
Man
Pure
Lonely
Healthy
Breath
Sides
Seven
Everything
Immense
Never
He
Feels
Terrestrial
Globe
Covers
Stirring
Where
Sea
Desert
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
Truth
Science
Made
Mistakes
Lead
Make
Because
Up
Lad
Which
Little
Useful
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
Jules Verne
Future
Character
Mind
Value
Past
Doubt
Changes
Once
Dread
Entrance
Performed
Forget
Forget The Past
Gain
Less
Deeds
Grow
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Jules Verne
Man
Will
Would
Perish
Inevitably
Where
Energetic
Succeed
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Jules Verne
Out
Taken
Puts
Branches
Root
Man is never perfect nor contented.
Jules Verne
Man
Perfect
Never
Contented
Nor
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
Future
Great
Water
Circle
Three
Half
Distance
Earth
Months
Thousand
Ten
Having
Sharp
Leagues
Piercing
Greater
Were
Accomplished
Spur
Than
Going
Where
After
Reserved
Now
Nearly
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
Man
Heart
Will
Thought
Long
Despair
Gifted
Allow
Beats
Himself
Being
Flesh
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
Best
Waiting
Our
Though
Best Friend
Friend
Often
Us
Who
Keeps
Sleep
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?
Jules Verne
Art
Great
Science
Humanity
Complicated
Simple
Everything
Telegraph
Press
Steam
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Discoveries
Than
Electric
Engine
Less
Compass
Gravitation
The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.
Jules Verne
Good
Degree
Latitude
Good Reason
Pole
Within
Been
Discovered
Very
North
North Pole
Situated
Regions
Reason
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
Jules Verne
Best
Before
Most
Masters
Listened
Teaches
Who
Necessity
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
Jules Verne
Time
No-One
Like
Tide
Trains
Stop
One's native land! There should one live! There die!
Jules Verne
Live
Die
Native
Native Land
Land
Should
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.
Jules Verne
Health
You
Man
Constitution
Matter
Negative
Rage
Difficult
Starvation
Hunger
Purely
Comprehend
Only
Sooner
Understand
Becomes
His
Than
Meaning
Meaning Of
Really
Suffer
Peculiar
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
Will
Moon
Before
Our
Distance
Consideration
Earth
Visit
Trifle
Mere
Between
Over
Am
Repeat
Years
To The Moon
Convinced
Paid
Satellite
Serious
Twenty
Her
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
Jules Verne
Science
Obey
Only
Hear
Fiat
Sent
Forth
Her
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
Jules Verne
Otherwise
Would
Would-Be
Faces
Only
Remain
Take
Course
Fellows
Arrested
Who
Honest
It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
Jules Verne
You
Action
Direct
Objects
Brain
Surrounded
Which
Inanimate
Certain
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
Jules Verne
Gone
Thinking
Solitary
Mad
Solitary Confinement
Horrors
Faculties
Simply
Because
How
Condemned
Confinement
Dormant
Persons
Many
One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.
Jules Verne
You
Events
Will
Whatever
Way
Follow
Only
Take
Surest
Surest Way
Right
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
Jules Verne
Day
Will
Moon
Long
Become
Lost
Cold
Earth
Corpse
One Day
Vital
My Friend
Since
Like
Well
Friend
Heat
Which
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
Jules Verne
Musicians
Science
Natural
World
First
Nothing
Birth
Perceive
More
Audacious
Yankees
Italians
Germans
Than
Just
Them
Ingenuity
Engineers
Therefore
Right
Applying
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.
Jules Verne
People
Simple
Overcome
Impossible
Word
Before
Deceived
Nothing
Difficulties
Evidently
Easy
Arise
French
Been
Dictionary
America
American
Often
Mechanical
Asserted
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