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And while his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Wednesday, 23rd January
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Was the old Rajah not dead then?—for he was suddenly seen to stand erect like a ghost. Then he took the young woman in his arms, spectre-like, climbed down from the pyre through the swirling smoke.
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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Thursday, 24th January
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It was the land that was under the sway of Feringhea, the chief of the Thugs, the king of the Stranglers. His assassins, brought together into a highly elusive society in honour of the goddess of death, strangled their victims of all ages, but without ever shedding a drop of blood.
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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Tuesday, 29th January
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Hans does not move a muscle. His long hair, pushed down over his motionless face by the tempest, gives him a strange appearance, for the end of each hair is illuminated by a tiny, feather-like radiation. His frightening mask is that of an antediluvian man, living at the time of the ichthyosauruses and megatheres.
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Thursday, 31st January
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The statue had four arms. The body was deep red, the eyes wild, the hair touseld, the tongue lolling, the lips coloured with henna and betel. Around its neck was draped a garland of death’s heads, and on its waist, a girdle of severed hands.
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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Friday, 22nd February
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Nevertheless, my imagination carries me away into the fantastic hypotheses of palaeontology. I am in a waking dream.
Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Saturday, 13th April
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Such was the position of the two men; but above them Phileas Fogg moved in majestic indifference. He was following his own rational orbit around the world, without bothering at all about the asteroids gravitating around him.
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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Friday, 26th April
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