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#1

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

tags: law

#2

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: philosophical

185 likes

#3

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

74 likes

#4

“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: philosophical

69 likes

#5

“Mobilis in Mobile”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

52 likes

#6

“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

38 likes

#7

“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

52 likes

#8

“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

51 likes

#9

“What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

37 likes

#10

“It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

19 likes

#11

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

tags: philosophical, spiritual

1390 likes

#12

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophical

462 likes

#13

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93566 likes

#14

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11226 likes

#15

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10779 likes

#16

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7361 likes

#17

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

5029 likes

#18

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

4236 likes

#19

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

4784 likes

#20

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7135 likes

#21

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

4499 likes

#22

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

2611 likes

#23

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

2834 likes

#24

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

2747 likes

#25

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

1551 likes

#26

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

1716 likes

#27

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: judgement

1399 likes

#28

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4628 likes

#29

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11156 likes

#30

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

3905 likes

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