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Oedipus Quotes Flashcards

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Everything ends

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Here, with me

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Nothing

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Can stop me

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Taunt me for

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The gift of my brilliant mind

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Luck, goddess who made

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Man all that is good, made me. Nothing can dishonour me, ever.

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Stubborn old

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Fool, you’d make a rock angry

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Viciously

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Cunningly plotting

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You were born

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Devious

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Say it

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To the whole city

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How much better

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To rule a city of men than be king of empty earth

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But I, nobody else,

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I, I raised these two hands of mine

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My heart would

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Be a stone if I felt no pity for these poor shattered people of mine

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Children, poor helpless

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Children

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My whole being

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Wails and breaks for this city, for myself, for all of you

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13
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I will do

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Everything. Everything

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14
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We called you king

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Draped you in gold

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15
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Everybody everywhere

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Knows who I am: Oedipus. King.

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Citizens, hear my curse again -

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Give this man nothing. Let him touch nothing. … With my own mouth I spoke these monstrous curses against myself.

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17
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Wasn’t i

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Born evil? Isn’t every part of me unclean?

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18
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The griefs

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We cause ourselves cut deepest of all

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19
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You will never marry

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But grow hard and dry like wheat so far beyond harvest that the wind blows its flakes into the winter sky

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Why should the

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Thought of marrying your mother make you so afraid?

21
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What raw track

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Of thorns and stones, what rock, gulley or blond hill won’t echo your screams?

22
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O kithairon,

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why did you shelter me and let me live?

23
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Not sons, not daughters

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Something else, monsters

24
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Oedipus came crashing in

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He was howling, stalking up and down … Like a bull, lurching, charging

25
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The God of plague

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Guts our city and fills the black world under us … With the shrieks of women

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Apollo

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Shoot into our enemy’s eyes

27
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Blind

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Our enemy

28
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Nothing. No one to see

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No one to love, no one to speak to, no one to hear.

29
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I would have made this body of mine a wall.

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I would have heard nothing, tasted nothing, seen nothing … so pain would never reach me anymore

30
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What are we

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Duty ghosts images a rustle of air nothing nothing no happiness lasts nothing human lasts

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I am nothing but

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My own cries breaking again and again

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You’re blind. Blind in your eyes.

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Blind in your ears. Blind in your mind.

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Why should I have

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Eyes? Why? When nothing I saw was worth seeing?

34
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If you think

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This stubborn anger of yours, this perversity, is something to be proud of, you’re mad

35
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Isn’t that

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What i predicted ?

36
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The future has

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No shape. The shapes of prophecy lie. I see nothing in them.

37
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Luck is everything.

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Things happen.

38
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No more

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Questions, for gods sake, for the sake of your own life! You must stop.

39
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You were born

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To suffer

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I have wept, struggled,

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wandered in this maze of thought, tried every road, searched hard

41
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Citizens, here my curse again

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Give this man nothing, let him touch nothing … With my own mouth I spoke these monstrous curses against myself

42
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Come

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Come to your brothers arms

43
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Light light light

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Never again flood these eyes with your white radiance

44
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The long pins sank deep

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All the way back into the sockets

45
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If you weren’t blind

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If you had eyes to see with, I’d say you, and you alone, did it all

46
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I will expose

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The killer, I will reveal him to the light

47
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Cursing his

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Two blind eyes over and over

48
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What God leaped on

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You from beyond the last border of space, what madness entered you

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