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Quotation from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
“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.”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter X, The Man of the Seas, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
Asked whether he likes the sea, Nemo breaks into praise of it as the one place free of despots.
Citation: "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." — 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-q2)
Portrait: Houghton FC8 V5946 869ve - Verne, frontispiece, Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Public domain.
