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81 " Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable? "
― Sophocles , Electra
82 " There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame. "
83 " You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream. "
84 " I am at the end. I exist no more. "
85 " ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your sufferingELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see. "
86 " What an ugly, loveless life for a girl. "
87 " Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself. "
88 " I will not live by rules like those. "
89 " By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these. "
90 " Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you—take me too! "
91 " Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was . "
92 " Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always. "
93 " All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love. "
94 " This is Electra. Brilliant no more. "
95 " And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow. "
96 " You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through. "
97 " Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out. "
98 " Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands. "
99 " Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out. "
100 " But death was a wind too strong for that. "