Question about the meaning of a Jules Verne quote "However…
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Question about the meaning of a Jules Verne quote "However strange his destiny be, it is also Sublime!"
The full quote goes as follows (but I'm only curious in the sentence above), "However strange his destiny be, it is also Sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did i not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, find it out? Only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself."
The quote comes from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Now onto my view, and admittedly. I have never been the scholarly type, nor particularly well-read, I just like to speak smartly at times because my lif3 is otherwise quite boring, but is the meaning of this quote alongside the lines of "seeing life for what it is, and for what life is, is wonderful. Even if life has terrible, great or any number of other possible things occuring within the lives of each of us individually?"
I want to understand the meaning of it, but my understanding is limited to sublim3's defini5ion being "not to be excelled, supreme" / "of high spiritual, moral. Or intellectual worth"
I have read 20,000 leagu3s under th3 sea, but jts been more than a decade, does the context of this quote point towards a different meaning? I am reading a young adult book and this quote is a pr3-face, cough cough, but I feel as tho I'm missing something in the meaning of this quote,
So I end my rambling with a rep3at of the question, what is the meaning of the quote "However strange his destiny be, it is also Sublime!"?
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The full quote goes as follows (but I'm only curious in the sentence above), "However strange his destiny be, it is also Sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did i not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, find it out? Only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself."
The quote comes from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Now onto my view, and admittedly. I have never been the scholarly type, nor particularly well-read, I just like to speak smartly at times because my lif3 is otherwise quite boring, but is the meaning of this quote alongside the lines of "seeing life for what it is, and for what life is, is wonderful. Even if life has terrible, great or any number of other possible things occuring within the lives of each of us individually?"
I want to understand the meaning of it, but my understanding is limited to sublim3's defini5ion being "not to be excelled, supreme" / "of high spiritual, moral. Or intellectual worth"
I have read 20,000 leagu3s under th3 sea, but jts been more than a decade, does the context of this quote point towards a different meaning? I am reading a young adult book and this quote is a pr3-face, cough cough, but I feel as tho I'm missing something in the meaning of this quote,
So I end my rambling with a rep3at of the question, what is the meaning of the quote "However strange his destiny be, it is also Sublime!"?
#entertainment
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That sentence is the whole argument, not a decoration. Strange means a life that does not look like anyone else's. Sublime is the older sense of the word: awe, scale, something that lifts you even while it unsettles you. The ten months of unnatural living are the evidence offered against Ecclesiastes. Not everything under the sun is vanity if the odd path still has grandeur. So the destiny is not excused for being strange. It is claimed as magnificent anyway.
