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Quotation from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
“I am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor! Through him I have lost all that I loved, cherished, and venerated”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part II, Chapter XXI, A Hecatomb, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
Nemo cuts off Aronnax's last plea for the warship he is about to sink.
Citation: "I am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor! Through him I have lost all that I loved, cherished, and venerated" — Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part II, Chapter XXI, A Hecatomb, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-q5)
Portrait: Houghton FC8 V5946 869ve - Verne, frontispiece, Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville, Public domain.
