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“What is darkness to you is light to me.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“26 minutes well employed are better worth than 26 years of idleness. A few seconds of Newton or Pascal are more precious than the whole lifetime of the general run of fools.”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

“I much prefer the old-fashioned comparisons of the Double Liegeois, which inform you simply: the Sun is a pumpkin, two feet in diameter, Jupiter an orange, Saturn a love-apple, Neptune a black cherry, Uranus a smaller cherry, the Earth a bean, Venus a pea, Mars a large pin's head, Mercury a mustard seed, and Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas mere grains of sand. One can understand that sort of thing.”
― Jules Verne, From Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence, It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infitine', as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her three kingdoms, mineral, vegetable, and animal. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature, The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In its supreme tranquillity. The sea does not belong to despots, Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“-Znam skočiti u vodu i zaroniti - rekla je Sophia. Je l' ti znaš skočiti?
A njena baka je odgovorila:
-Naravno da znam. Zaboraviš na sve, uzmeš zalet i jednostavno skočiš. Osjetiš morsku travu oko nogu, trava je smeđa, a voda je bistra, prema površini sve svjetlija i svuda su mjehurići. A ti kliziš. Držiš dah i kliziš, i okreneš se, i kreneš prema gore, pustiš da te voda podigne, i izdahneš. A onda plutaš. Samo plutaš.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Vjerovatno je jedna od onih koji jednom naprave nešto dobro, a potom nikad više.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Kako čudno, pomislila je baka, više ne znam opisivati, nedostaju mi riječi ili se možda ne trudim dovoljno, Bilo je to tako davno. Više niko nema nikakve veze s time. Ako ne ispričam zato što to želim, bit će kao da se nikada nije ni dogodilo, ta će se vrata zatvoriti i sve će biti izgubljeno.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“...O tome - rekla je baka - kako se stvari smanjuju i otkliznu iz sjećanja, i sve što je nekada bilo toliko zabavno sad ne znači više ništa, a onda se osjećaš osiromašeno. I nekako nezahvalno. Trebao bi čovjek o tome barem moći pričati.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Čovjek ponekad shvati stvari kad bude prekasno i onda nema snge ponovo početi ispočetka, a zna se dogoditi i da putem sve zaboravi i ne zna više ništa.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Miris je važna stvar, on podsjeća na sve ono što je čovjek proživio, on je omotač od sjećanja i osjećaja sigurnosti.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

“Počela je razmišljati na koje sve načine opisujemo smrt i kako se o smrti svi boje pričati, to ju je oduvijek zanimalo. Šteta što čovjek nikada ne može voditi inteligentan razgovor o toj temi. Ili si premlad, ili prestar, ili nemaš vremena.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book