“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 , book A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Et tant que son coeur bat, tant que sa chair palpite, je n'admets pas qu'un être doué de volonté laisse en lui place au désespoir.
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XLII in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)

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Et tant que son coeur bat, tant que sa chair palpite, je n'admets pas qu'un être doué de volonté laisse en lui place au désespoir.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

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French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

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