These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas. One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly: “The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

— Jules Verne

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When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.

— Jules Verne

The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.

— Jules Verne

Suppose we save this woman.” “Save the woman, Mr. Fogg!” “I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that.” “Why, you are a man of heart!” “Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; “when I have the time.

— Jules Verne

As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.

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We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.

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I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope.

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If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.

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As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.

— Jules Verne

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest – man or nature.

— Jules Verne

Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors – errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth.

— Jules Verne

If we may die at any moment, we may also be saved at any moment. So let us be prepared to seize the slightest opportunity.

— Jules Verne

In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species, and varieties. But there his science came to a halt. Classifying was everything to him, so he knew nothing else.

— Jules Verne

Nautron respoc lorni virch.

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It’s not what’s on this island, but what’s beneath it, that interests me.

— Jules Verne

The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures.

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Je crains donc bien qu’il ne soit difficile d’y entrer, ayant vent et mer contre nous.

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When the heart and the reason are struggling, it is generally the heart that wins the mastery.

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What delicious walks.

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What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve.

— Jules Verne

As for Dr. Custos, he was an honorable practitioner who, following the example of his colleagues, cured his patients of all their diseases, except the one they died from: a disagreeable habit that has been picked up, unfortunately, by all the members of the medical profession, whichever country they practice in.

— Jules Verne
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