Stoic Sovereign
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Human ingenuity thrives in captivity, a testament to self-ownership and the unyielding desire for autonomy.
Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo":
“My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had been scattered in different directions before; now they clashed together on a narrow space—and you know that from the collision of clouds comes electricity, from electricity comes lightning, and from lightning comes light.”