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Sophocles Quotes

OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing.

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