"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?"
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Source: Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.86, Penguin
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