Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Alexandre DumasWhat Iโve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. Youโve broken it with a word, so I must die.
Alexandre DumasWhat 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 โ from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
Alexandre Dumas