Quote time! Which of these quotes from Captain Nemo is your favorite?

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	"Monsieur le Professeur... I am not what you would call a civilized man!"
35%	11 votes
	"Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!"
6%	2 votes
	"In my eyes, your modern artists are already ancient; they are two or three thousand years old. I make no distinction between them. The great masters are ageless... Thes musicians are contemporaries of Orpheus, for chronologial differeces are effaced in
0%	0 votes
	/"My electricity is not the electricity known to the rest of the world. That is all I will say about it for the present."
6%	2 votes
	"Look... [the ocean] is awakening under the caresses of the sun and is ready to renew its daily existence! It is a fascinating study to follow the workings of its organism. It has a pulse, arteries, and its spasms, too. I agree with the learned Maury,
6%	2 votes
	"A coral tomb is a peaceful tomb -- and may heaven bless me and my companions with no other!"
6%	2 votes
	"An accident?" I asked him. "No," he replied; "an incident."
6%	2 votes
	"Savages! ...Are you astonished, Monsieur le Professeur, that having set foot on land, you discovered savages? Is there a land that isn't infested with them? But Monsieur le Professeur, are these people, whom you call savages, worse than those on any la
29%	9 votes
	Other
3%	1 votes

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