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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea quotes

Jules Verne

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“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...” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Savages! where are there not any? Besides, are they worse than others, these whom you call savages?” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money than of their foolish hopes.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Where others have failed, I will not fail.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“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.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten for fifteen hours.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The barbarous and inconsiderate greed of these fishermen will one day cause the disappearance of the last whale in the ocean.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Liberty is worth paying for” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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