There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death — who… - Sophocles

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There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death — who knows? — may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.

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Sophocles (Greek: Σοφοκλῆς; 496 – 406 BCE) was a Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Classical Athens. He was also a general for the Athenian Empire in the Peloponnesian Wars, and during his service he led the battle against the Peloponnesian Island of Samos.[citation needed]

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You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!

I am at the end. I exist no more.

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