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Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne’s collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaire , a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in Western regions where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children’s books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels were often printed. Since the 1980’s his reputation has significantly improved. Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning…and let anything better come as a surprise.”
“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
“Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.”
“Savages!’ he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?”
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- - - - - - -“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning…and let anything better come as a surprise.”
“How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”
“Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.”
“Savages!’ he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?”