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| e1564d6 | He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome." | Jules Verne | ||
| 357fc49 | I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5dfd488 | Unhappily for his master, as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go. At last, having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance, he was turning his steps towards the station, when he happened to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible desire to see its interior. He was quite ignorant that it is forbidden to Christians to enter certain Indian temp.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 73e5152 | One might say that modern Honduran history began in 1873, when Jules Verne introduced Americans to the banana in his novel Around the World in 80 Days, where he praised it as being "as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream." | Douglas Preston | ||
| 34c79a2 | Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, "The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death." | Jules Verne | ||
| aceb5b1 | Pero, ?que habia ganado con esa excursion? ?Que habia traido de su viaje? Nada, se dira. Nada, enhorabuena, a no ser una linda mujer, que, por inverosimil que parezca, le hizo el mas feliz de los hombres. Y en verdad, ?no se daria por menos que eso la vuelta al mundo? | Jules Verne | ||
| f8baf4f | administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill. | Jules Verne | ||
| 492912b | Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! | Jules Verne | ||
| 7bdcdd7 | Everything, it said, was against the travellers, every obstacle imposed alike by man and by nature. A miraculous agreement of the times of departure and arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely necessary to his success. He might, perhaps, reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours, in Europe, where the distances were relatively moderate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in sev.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 4ae52ce | The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. | Jules Verne | ||
| 7b812f1 | Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy. | Jules Verne | ||
| b1187c3 | And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin? | Jules Verne | ||
| e09d103 | Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heavens. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6b0eda4 | Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ' We shall be there! We shall be here!' I speak in the present,'We are here, and we must profit by it. | Jules Verne | ||
| 5194010 | The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned! | Jules Verne | ||
| eab842f | The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. | Jules Verne | ||
| 274bc02 | Every day I would run to the library to get new books. Reading was a passion: I wanted to understand life. I read Dostoevsky and Brehm, Jules Verne and Turgenev, Dickens and the Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye; and the more I read, th emore I doubted everything. Lies surrounded me on all sides; one moment I wanted to run off to the Indian jungle, the next to throw a bomb at the governor-general's house on Tverskaya, the next to hang myself. | literature suicide | Ilya Ehrenburg | |
| 75acb31 | But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so;...Truly, would you not for less than that go around the world? | travel | Jules Verne | |
| f84b310 | It is unnecessary to say that the seeds collected by Herbert on Tabor Island had been carefully sown. The plateau thus formed one immense kitchen-garden, well laid out and carefully tended, so that the arms of the settlers were never in want of work. There was always something to be done. As the esculents increased in number, it became necessary to enlarge the simple beds, which threatened to grow into regular fields and replace the meadows.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 39ac21a | hold of people's minds and actually control them. View a corporate stronghold like the giant squid that attacked Captain Nemo's Nautilus in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, waiting for people to swim near so it could wrap its tentacles about them. Whenever people begin to think in certain ways, principalities can maneuver appropriate corporate strongholds into position to clamp about them and actually rob them of the freedom to t.. | John Loren Sandford | ||
| b4459a0 | If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. | Jules Verne | ||
| 79d2781 | The Ranee was killed in a hand to hand fight before Gwalior. This famous queen, who was devoted to the Nabob, and was his most faithful companion during the insurrection, fell by the hand of Sir Edward Munro. Nana Sahib, by the dead body of Lady Munro at Cawnpore, the colonel, by the dead body of the Ranee at Gwalior, represent the revolt and the suppression, and were thus made enemies whose hatred would find terrible vent if they ever met .. | Jules Verne | ||
| b88b28d | Era uno di quegli esseri bizzarri che il Creatore inventa per capriccio e di cui spezza subito lo stampo. | personaggi persone | Jules Verne | |
| 20584d0 | Este rayo tiene la virtud de hacer que aquel que lo ha visto no pueda jamas equivocarse en las cosas del corazon; su aparicion destruye las ilusiones y las mentiras; y el que ha tenido la dicha de verlo solo una vez, ya puede ver claro en su corazon, y en el de los demas. | Jules Verne | ||
| ab09969 | If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence. | Jules Verne | ||
| f0f77ad | Adieu, sun! Disappear, thou radiant orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over my new domains! | Jules Verne | ||
| 5a53277 | Redactor's Note: Journey to the Centre of the Earth is number V002 in the Taves and Michaluk numbering of the works of Jules Verne. First published in England by Griffith and Farran, 1871, this edition is not a translation at all but a complete re-write of the novel, with portions added and omitted, and names changed. The most reprinted version, it is entered into Project Gutenberg for reference purposes only. A better translation is A Jour.. | Jules Verne | ||
| 49c27c9 | We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on. | Jules Verne | ||
| 34d3175 | A ondulacao deste numero infinito de montanhas, cujos cumes nevados os fazem parecer como que cobertas por espuma, trouxe a minha lembranca a superficie de um oceano sendo espancado por uma tempestade. Se olhei para o oeste, o oceano exibia-se diante de mim em toda a sua majestosa grandeza, uma continuacao de certo modo, um destes lanosos topos. Onde a terra terminava e o mar comecava era impossivel para o olho distinguir. | terra viagem | Jules Verne | |
| 07f27c6 | P h y j s l y d d q f d z x g a s g z z q q e h x g k f n d r x u j u g I o c y t d x v k s b x h h u y p o h d v y r y m h u h p u y d k j o x p h e t o z l s l e t n p m v f f o v p d p a j x h y y n o j y g g a y m e q y n f u q l n m v l y f g s u z m q I z t l b q q y u g s q e u b v n r c r e d g r u z b l r m x y u h q h p z d r r g c r o h e p q x u f I v v r p l p h o n t h v d d q f h q s n t z h h h n f e p m q k y u u e x k t o .. | Jules Verne | ||
| 47430c7 | Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. The locksmith reties the stone inside the bag and slips it back into his rucksack. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2ecd629 | It was enough when Werner was a boy, wasn't it? A world of wildflowers blooming up through the shapes of rusty cast-off parts. A world of berries and carrot peels and Frau Elena's fairy tales. Of the sharp smell of tar, and trains passing, and bees humming in the window boxes. String and spit and wire and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| d9c6448 | I wasn't trying to reach England. or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my brother would hear me. That I could bring him some peace, protect him as he had always protected me." You'd play your brother's own voice to him? After he died?" "And Debussy." Did he ever talk back?" The attic ticks. What ghosts sidle along the walls right now, trying to overhear? She can almost taste her great-uncle's fright in the ai.. | ghosts radio | Anthony Doerr | |
| 5274d70 | Entropy is the degree of randomness or disorder in a system, Doctor." His eyes fix on Werner's for a heartbeat, a glance both warm and chilling. "Disorder. You hear the commandant say it. You hear your bunk masters say it. There must be order. Life is chaos, gentlemen. And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of the species. Winnowing out the inferior, the unruly, the chaff. T.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 01af272 | And one cold Tuesday in December, when Marie-Laure has been blind for over a year, her father walks her up rue Cuvier to the edge of the Jardin des Plantes. "Here, ma cherie, is the path we take every morning. Through the cedars up ahead is the Grand Gallery." "I know, Papa." He picks her up and spins her around three times. "Now," he says, "you're going to take us home." Her mouth drops open. "I want you to think of the model, Marie." "But.. | father-s-love | Anthony Doerr | |
| d890fd6 | How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 32ce2bd | Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?" Doubts: slipping in like eels." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f76c71a | Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the fuhrer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The fuhrer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather. Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the fuhrer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on. Give up cream for the fuhrer, sleep for the fuhrer, aluminum for the fuh.. | anthony-doerr ww2 wwii | Anthony Doerr | |
| 27a29e7 | Ready?" He sounds like her father when he was about to say something silly. In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. And Madame Manec: Don't you want to be alive before you die? "Yes." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 3cf708b | They go down the ladder and clamber out through the wardrobe. No soldiers wait in the hall with guns drawn. Nothing seems different at all. A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne laughs as though to himself. "Do you remember what Madame said about the boiling frog?" "Yes, Uncle." "I .. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 543297e | Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful. | duty german germany war werner | Anthony Doerr | |
| 1c4579d | and Werner sees six-year-old Jutta lean toward him, Frau Elena kneading bread in the background, a crystal radio in his lap, the cords of his soul not yet severed. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ca2ebcb | Werner and his younger sister, Jutta, are raised at Children's House, a clinker-brick two-story orphanage on Viktoriastrasse whose rooms are populated with the coughs of sick children and the crying of newborns and battered trunks inside which drowse the last possessions of deceased parents: patchwork dresses, tarnished wedding cutlery, faded ambrotypes of fathers swallowed by the mines. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 829dd93 | Marie-Laure will indeed smell something, whether because her uncle is passing coffee grounds beneath her nose, or because they really are flying over the coffee trees of Boreno, she does not want to decide (151). | Anthony Doerr |