“In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”

— Jules Verne, book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Les différences chronologiques s'effacent dans la mémoire des morts.
Part I, ch. X: The Man of the Seas (Part I, ch. XI in the French text)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

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French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

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