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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Quotes

Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul. - Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Quotes)

Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.[Le parfum, c’est l’âme de la fleur, et les fleurs de la mer, ces splendides hydrophytes, n’ont pas d’âme!]

Source:(Charles Scribner's Sons, ed. 1925), Part II, Chapter X. The Submarine Coal-Mines, Page 286
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Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Quotes)
  • Book: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Writer: Jules Verne
  • Genre: Adventure, Classics, Science Fiction
  • Published: 1870
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