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Oedipus Trilogy

  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    No matter if I saved the commonwealth.
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    I ne'er had come hadst thou not bidden me.
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    And yet this very greatness proved thy bane.
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    this crown the State conferred on me.
    A gift, a thing I sought not
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    King as thou art, free speech at least is mine
    To make reply; in this I am thy peer.
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    To twit me with my blindness—thou hast eyes,
    Yet see'st not in what misery thou art fallen,
    Nor where thou dwellest nor with whom for mate.
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    but no living man can hope
    To force the gods to speak against their will
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    thou thyself art thine own bane.
    OEDIPUS
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    "who seeks shall find;
    Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."
  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    "He raised us up only to cast us down."
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