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61 " been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue. Impatience grew apace, when, "
― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
62 " that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same "
63 " The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men! "
64 " However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself. "
65 " c’est bon, l’oxygène ! Que monsieur ne craigne pas de respirer. Il y en a pour tout le monde. » "
66 " I went back to reading Sirr's book, but I leafed through it mechanically. Between the lines I kept seeing fearsome, wide–open jaws. "
67 " you must never make snap judgments about your fellow man. "
68 " From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up. "
69 " These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and "
70 " As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. "
71 " Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking. "
72 " I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel! "
73 " if the seas were cleaned of whales and seals. Then, infested with poulps, medusae, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centres of infection, since "
74 " Il mare è tutto. Copre i sette decimi del globo terrestre. Il suo respiro è puro e sano. È l'immenso deserto dove l'uomo non è mai solo, poiché sente fremere la vita accanto a sé. Il mare non è altro che il veicolo di un'esistenza soprannaturale e prodigiosa; non è che movimento e amore, è l'infinito vivente... "
75 " 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, "
76 " Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not! "
77 " THE DEEPEST PARTS OF THE ocean are totally unknown to us,” admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. “What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? It’s almost beyond conjecture.” Jules Verne (1828–1905) published the French equivalents of these words in 1869, and little has changed since. 126 years later, a Time cover story on deep–sea exploration made much the same admission: “We know more about Mars than we know about the oceans. "
78 " The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress. "
79 " His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability. "
80 " These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas. One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly: "The earth does not want new continents, but new men. "