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Quotes from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne

1828–1905 France

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What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

Qui dit Canadien, dit Français.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

Thus ends the voyage under the seas. What passed during that night — how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom — how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

Freedom is worth paying for.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

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.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jules Verne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.