"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it."
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Source: Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press
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