How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The sea is nature's vast reserve. It was through the sea that the globe as it were began, and who knows if it will not end in the sea! Perfect peace abides here. The sea does not belong to despots. On its surface immoral rights can still be claimed, men can fight each other, devour each other, and carry out all earth's atrocities. But thirty feet below the surface their power ceases, their influence fades, their authority disappears. Ah, sir, live, live in the heart of the sea! Independence is possible only here! Here I recognize no master! Here I am free! (1.10.79)
Here, again, Nemo gushes about the freedom he's found in the sea. Whatever despot drove him there—and we're guessing one did by the way he loves to hate on the oppressors and donate to the oppressed—really blew it. This guy's perfectly happy living outside of society, thank you very much.
Quote #5
Would I ever know to what nation this strange man belonged, that boasted of belonging to none? Who had produced the hatred he had sworn for the whole of humanity, the hatred which might perhaps seek a terrible vengeance? Was he one of those unrecognized scientists, one of those geniuses 'who had been hurt' to use Conseil's expression, a modern Galileo; or he was he one of those scientists […] whose career was ruined by a political revolution? (1.14.24)
As far as Aronnax is considered, Nemo's the latest in a long line of brilliant exiles: men whose genius got them cast out of society. What do you think?
Quote #6
There, not a single sea creature would come to trouble the final sleep of the inhabitants of the Nautilus, friends welded to each other in death as they were in life! "Not a single man, either!" the captain had added.
Always the same defiance of human society, wild and implacable. (2.1.1-2)
Nemo never considers returning to land, not even after death.