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Quotation from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
“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 Sea, Part I, Chapter X, The Man of the Seas, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
Nemo answers Aronnax's protest that keeping the castaways prisoner is not the act of a civilised man.
Citation: "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." — Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter X, The Man of the Seas, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-q1)
Portrait: Houghton FC8 V5946 869ve - Verne, frontispiece, Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Public domain.
