"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."
"How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!"
About the author
Jules Verne
Novelist, Playwright
Jules Verne was a French novelist known for pioneering science fiction with works like 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and 'Around the World in Eighty Days.'
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"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."
"There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!"
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
"He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason."
"Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world."