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"So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature."

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About Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a French novelist and pioneer of adventure and science fiction literature. His works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, influenced modern speculative fiction.

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