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 was a 19th-century French writer and dramatist. Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright. Read more on Wikipedia →