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Jules Verne, born on February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, and died on March 24, 1905. He was a renowned French science fiction novelist in the 19th century, known as the 'Father of Science Fiction'. Verne's works are characterized by their rich imagination and unique scientific fantasy, with notable titles such as 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' and 'Around the World in Eighty Days'.

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“However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.”

Thinking Loses Sea Feet Danger Arms Higher Heavy Atmosphere Height Enterprise Articles Layers Abyss Provision Fluid Risen Balloons Ammunition Overboard

Book:The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”

Mind Humans Animal Sea Delight Mediums Giants Human Mind Conception Vehicle Elephants Supernatural Beings

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?”

Ifs Knows Ends Speak Sea Globes Reservoirs

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“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.”

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories

“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.”

Emotion Existence Wonderful Journey Sea Infinite Embodiment

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!”

Found Sea Masters Independence Bosoms

Book:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2

Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2

“Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!”

May Soul Sea Flower Scent Splendid

Book:20,000 leagues under the sea

Source: 20,000 leagues under the sea

“He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.”

Believe Reason Certain Sea Sailor Good Woman Leviathan

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?”

Years Heart Age Lasts Alive Sea Land Century Huge Ocean Mass Species Depth Variety Never Change Alterations

Book:Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea