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��Of course you cannot know a man completely, 
his character, his principles, sense of judgement,
not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people,
making laws. Experience, there's the test.(Antigone,194-)(Creon)

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��Never without resources
never an impasse�]���ҡ^as he marches on the future,
only Death, from Death alone he will find no rescue
but from desparate plagues he has plotted his escapes.(Antigone,404-)

��But look,
he's free, he's ended his life with blessings,
children, end your grief. No one alive
is free and clear of pain.(Colonus, 1945)�]�������`�ϦӧK��h�W�I�I�^

��Better to die than be alive and blind.(Oedipus, 1497)

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��Tou with your precious eyes, 
you're blind to the corruption of your life.(Oedipus, 470)

��That day you learn the truth about your marriage,
the wedding-march that sang you into your halls,
the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor!(Oedipus, 484)�]�t��G�P�R�����W�^

��he sowed the loins
his father sowed, he spilled his father's blood.(Oedipus, 522)

��you are fated to couple with your mother , your will bring
a breed of children into the light no man can bear to see,
you will kill your father, the one who gave your life!(Oedipus, 873)�]�w���ᯫ�١^

��Many a man before you,
in his dreams, has shared his mother's bed.(Oedipus, 1075)
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��Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich,
he will grope his way toward a foreign soil,
a stick tapping before him step by step.(Oedipus, 517)

��too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen,
blind to the ones you longed to see, to know!(Oedipus, 1407)

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��Not to be born is best
when all is reckoned in, but once a man has seen the light
the next best thing, by far, is to go back
back where he came from, quickly as he can.
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Envy and enemies, rage and battles, bloodshed
and last of all despised old age overtakes him,
stripped of power, companions, stripped of love,
the worst this life of pain can offer,
old age our mate at last.(Colonus, 1388-)�]������þ���@�W���^

��only the gods can never age,
the gods can never die. All else in the world
almighty Time obliterates, crushes all
to nothing.(Colonus, 687-)

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��What should a man fear? It's all chance,
chance rules our lives.(Oedipus,1069)(Jocasta)

��incest, misery, all your mouth lets fly at me,
I have suffered it all, and all against my will!
Such was the pleasure of the gods, raging,
perhaps, against our race from ages past.
......
something criminal deep inside me.....
Come, tell me: if by an oracle of the gods,
some doom were hanging over my father's head
that he should die at the hands of his own son,
how, with any justice, could you blame me?
.....
How could you condemn that involuntary act
with any sense of justice?
....
But at least I know one thing:
you slander her and me of your own free will,
but I made her my bride against my will.(Oedipus,1099-)�]�����ʾ��P�o�檺���D�^

��Acceptance, that is the great lesson suffering teaches,
suffering and the long years, my close companions,
yes, and nobility too, my royal birthright.(Colonus, 6)

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��Like a seer I sense the glory in these struggles,
Rush me, wing me into the whirlwind, O dear god,
like a dove at the thunderheads of heaven I'd look down
I'd scan these struggles, I would see their glory!(Colonus,1229)

��Now, even if I should die, I'm not destroyed....(Colonus,1260)

��Appolo, friends, Appolo
he ordained my agonies, these, my pains on pains!
But the hand that struck my eyes was mine,
mine alone, no one else, 
I did it all myself!
What good were eyes to me?(Oedipus,1468)
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��Oblivion(Forgetfulness), what a blessing....
for the mind to dwell a sorld away from pain.(Oedipus,1522-)

��Time is the great healer, you will see.(Oedipus,1644)

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��Remember this:
our country is our safety.
Only while she voyages true on course
can we establish friendships, truer than blood itself.(Antigone,211)(Creon)

��whoever places a friend 
above the good of his own country, he is nothing.(Antigone,203)(Creon)


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