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.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representin... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent t... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the ear... ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because... ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness. DUMAS MALONE Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy. ALEXANDER DUMAS Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ... ALEXANDER DUMAS Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money. ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDER DUMAS Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n... ALEXANDER DUMAS The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three. ALEXANDER DUMAS All for one, one for all, that is our device. ALEXANDER DUMAS I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me. ALEXANDER DUMAS In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ... ALEXANDER DUMAS The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th... ALEXANDER DUMAS The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that... ANN DUMAS There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French... ANN DUMAS