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Journey To The Center Of The Earth

"The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived." — Arthur C. Clarke An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have

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“Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Hunger, Feeling, Emotion, Madness, mental state

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Uplifting Literature