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"How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth."
— Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

"I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. "
— Jasper Fforde (The Well of Lost Plots)

tags: humor, oedipus

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"How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.
"
— Sophocles

tags: oedipus, rex

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"I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong."
— Scott Spencer

tags: family, oedipus

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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!"
— Sophocles (The Complete Plays of Sophocles)

tags: oedipus

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