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Professor Pierre Aronnax Quotes

12 of the best book quotes from Professor Pierre Aronnax
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“As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.”
Jules Verne
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Professor Pierre Aronnax
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“His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.”
Professor Pierre Aronnax
Captain Nemo
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anxiety
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“God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”
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[S]team seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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We will die together, friend Ned.
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“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. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
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May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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I thanked Captain Nemo, and went up to the shelves of the library. Works on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed. Strange to say, all these books were irregularly arranged, in whatever language they were written; and this medley proved that the Captain of the Nautilus must have read indiscriminately the books which he took up by chance.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten for fifteen hours. Our appetites satisfied, we felt overcome with sleep.

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