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Antigone Quotes

14 of the best book quotes from Antigone
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“I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
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“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
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“I didn’t say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don’t have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.”
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“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”
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“And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I will lie with the one I love and loved by him”
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“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”
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“By open words A scheme of villainy is soon bewrayed.”
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“Ah, woe is me! where shall I fly, where find Succor from gods or men?”
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“Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.”
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“No man shall say that I betrayed a brother.”
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“To reverence kith and kin can bring no shame.”
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“Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, And she who sits enthroned with gods below, Justice, enacted not these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could’st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.”
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“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.”
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“No youths have sung the marriage song for me, My bridal bed No maids have strewn with flowers from the lea, ‘Tis Death I wed.”
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