"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?"
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Source: Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”
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