“ I am the only living thing in the world: all life is concentrated in my beating heart alone. ”
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). copy citation
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Source | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Topic | heart life |
| Date | 1864 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3748/3748-h/3748-h.htm |
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“The mammals disappear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the secondary period, and finally the fish, the crustaceans, molluscs, and articulated beings. Then the zoophytes of the transition period also return to nothing. I am the only living thing in the world: all life is concentrated in my beating heart alone. There are no more seasons; climates are no more; the heat of the globe continually increases and neutralises that of the sun. Vegetation becomes accelerated. I glide like a shade amongst arborescent ferns, treading with unsteady feet the coloured marls and the particoloured clays;”
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