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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.

— Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

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These sentences, from an early translation of the book (Griffith and Farran, 1871), have no source in the original French text.

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