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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: "Excellent," replied my uncle.
A glimpse of hope had returned, although without cause. But our last
meal was over, and it was now five in the morning.
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger
once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of
starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
Therefore it was that after our long fast these few mouthfuls of meat
and biscuit made us triumph over our past agonies.
But as soon as the meal was done, we each of us fell deep into
thought. What was Hans thinking of - that man of the far West, but
who seemed ruled by the fatalist doctrines of the East?
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