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“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
― Electra
― Electra

“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.
ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.
ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.
ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.
ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?
ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.”
― Electra
ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.
ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.
ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.
ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?
ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.”
― Electra

“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?”
― Electra
― Electra

“There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.”
― Electra
― Electra

“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
― Electra
― Electra

“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.”
― Electra
― Electra

“Because she—you hear her—she's calling,
and is always going to call, and it's better
both of us die by the dagger without anyone
seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
and is always going to call, and it's better
both of us die by the dagger without anyone
seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

“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.”
― Electra
ORESTES: What are you asking?
ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Electra

“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
― Electra
― Electra

“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .”
― Electra
― Electra

“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!”
― Electra
― Electra

“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
― Electra
― Electra

“Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.”
― Electra
― Electra

“Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.”
― Electra
― Electra

“You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.”
― Electra
― Electra

“I, Electra, fingering my garments
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“Que antes ti haya una mesa colmada y te sea la vida fácil. ¡Que tenga yo por único alimento el no contradecirme a mí misma!”
― Electra
― Electra
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