"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot."
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Source: Electra. Play by Sophocles, Line 1007. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.
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