oedipus key quotes
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- Created on: 01-06-19 13:08
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- Oedipus
- 'I would be blind misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet'
- [Priest] You cannot equal the gods [...] but we rate you first of men'
- 'I will speak out now as a stranger to the story, a stranger to the crime'
- 'He is the plague, the heart of our corruption'
- [Tiresias] 'You are the curse, the corruption of the land'
- 'You can't hurt me or anyone else who sees the light'
- [to Creon] 'You, plotting to kill me, kill the king - [...] scheming to kill my crown and power!'
- 'I have a terrible fear the blind seer can see'
- 'What a man above more miserable than I? More hated by the gods?'
- 'I count myself the son of chance'
- 'Apollo, god of the wild cry may our dancing please you!'
- 'Apollo - he ordained my agonies. But the hand that struck my eyes was mine. I did it all myself!'
- 'crimes too huge for hanging'
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