"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all."
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Source: Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).
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