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“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn”
― Agamemnon
― Agamemnon
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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“To learn is to be young, however old.”
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