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“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“I bring it to my face, smell. Mildew and sweat and every empty day that's passed since.”
― The Animators
― The Animators
“You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.”
― This is Where I Leave You
― This is Where I Leave You
“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.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
"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.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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