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Jules Verne

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Born 1828 in Nantes · Died 1905 in Amiens

writer, novelist, poet, playwright · France

Notable works: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island

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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

From Project Gutenberg e-text #164 (public domain in the USA).

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.

— Spoken by a character · X. THE MAN OF THE SEAS

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“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”

— Spoken by a character · XVIII. VANIKORO

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Around the World in Eighty Days

From Project Gutenberg e-text #103 (public domain in the USA).

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

— Spoken by a character · XIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE

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Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!

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From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon

From Project Gutenberg e-text #83 (public domain in the USA).

It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure.

— Barbicane · III. THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER

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Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.

— Spoken by a character · XIX. A MONSTER MEETING

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