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Jules Verne

French writer

1828–1905

10 quotes, most often on Freedom, Risk and Power.

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Freedom
- Power
Ah! sir, live⁠—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Freedom
I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Character
- Freedom

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