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While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
The Great Architect of the Universe built it of good stuff.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
To describe my despair would be impossible. No words could tell it. I was buried alive, with the prospect before me of dying of hunger and thirst.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)