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"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

"Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."


"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."


"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."
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