What Would You Not Have Accomplished If You Had Been Free?" "possibly Nothing At All; The Overflow Of My Brain Would Probably, In A State Of Freedom, Have Evaporated In A Thousand Follies; Misfortune Is Needed To Bring To Light The Treasures Of The Human Intellect. Compression Is Needed To Explode Gunpowder. Captivity Has Brought My Mental Faculties To A Focus; And You Are Well Aware That From The Collision Of Clouds Electricity Is Produced — From Electricity, Lightning, From Lightning, Illumination.

-Alexandre Dumas

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What Would You Not Have Accomplished If

Alexandre Dumas

What Would You Not Have Accomplished If You Had Been Free?" "possibly Nothing At All; The Overflow Of My Brain Would Probably, In A State Of Freedom, Have Evaporated In A Thousand Follies; Misfortune Is Needed To Bring To Light The Treasures Of The Human Intellect. Compression Is Needed To Explode Gunpowder. Captivity Has Brought My Mental Faculties To A Focus; And You Are Well Aware That From The Collision Of Clouds Electricity Is Produced — From Electricity, Lightning, From Lightning, Illumination.

Topic

Illumination

Clouds

Light

Does The Open Wound In Another's Breast Soften The Pain Of The Gaping Wound In Our Own? Or Does The Blood Which Is Welling From Another Man's Side Staunch That Which Is Pouring From Our Own? Does The General Anguish Of Our Fellow Creatures Lessen Our Own Private And Particular Anguish? No, No, Each Suffers On His Own Account, Each Struggles With His Own Grief, Each Sheds His Own Tears.

Pain

Grief

Struggle