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
brain mind madness
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
eye night light
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.
persevere without-hope hope-of-success
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
land
You will travel in a Land of Marvels
world moments typhoons
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
impossible accomplished remains
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
elephants tree uprooting
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
curiosity pay exploration
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
elsewhere
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
ocean heart years
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
use argument force
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
memories differences
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
world good-times better-life
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time