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1 " Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. "
― Sophocles , Electra
2 " For Time calls only once, and that determines all. "
3 " You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life. "
4 " Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread. "
5 " ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love—ORESTES: What are you asking?ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away. "
6 " I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. "
7 " Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore. "
8 " 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? "
9 " There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame. "
10 " You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream. "
11 " I am at the end. I exist no more. "
12 " ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your sufferingELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see. "
13 " What an ugly, loveless life for a girl. "
14 " Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself. "
15 " I will not live by rules like those. "
16 " 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. "
17 " 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! "
18 " Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was . "
19 " Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always. "
20 " All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love. "