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Jules Verne1828–1905

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.

Jules Verne on power

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter X

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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.
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Ah! sir, live⁠—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!
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