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"Exact words" (132).

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"You saved us from the Sphinx...You saved us from her plague...You saved us when a god touched your mind" (33-37).

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"What pollution? How are we to expel in from our midst?" (Pg. 677 L. 91)

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"Call the elders of Thebes to gather here. Tell them I will do all that is in my power" (pg 679 line 136-137).

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"I have paced my restless room thinking, thinking. In the end I found a remedy and I have put it to work" (62-63)

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"Is this plot yours alone or was it Creon's idea?" (pg 684 line 358)

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"I hear your prayer. Listen to me and I will teach you how to heal." (200-201)

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"I will obey his command. I will stand by your side. i will avenge this country's loss. it is my duty. I do not for unknown friend but for myself. We must expel this evil. Whoever killed king Laius might be the death of me--- who knows? it might happen now. It is of my own interest to avenge your slaughtered king" (Pg. 677 - L. 127-133)

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"Yes, I am angry and I will not be silent! I will speak what is on my mind.
I think it was you, yes you, who planned the murder.
Yes--and did it all--except the actual killing.
And if you were not blind you would have done that too."(pg. 684, 318-322)

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"Yes! Mock me for the skill that made me great...I saved this city!" (420-422)

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"Tell me what is troubling you. Do you come in fear? Do you seek a blessing from the gods? Tell me. Never doubt that I will help you in every way I can. I am moved and touched to find you suppliant here" (12-15)

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"You there! What are you doing here? Do you have the gall to come near my palace? There is no doubt in my mind that you planned to kill me and usurp the throne." (pg 688 line 496-499)

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"He shall have my thanks and a rich reward" (213).

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A part where Oedipus tries to be good is where he says "Should the murder of your noble king, go unavenged?"on line 230

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"Oh speak! hold nothing back. I order you to tell us what you know"
Line (297-298)

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"Yes, take him away. Leave me in peace. Your presence here disturbs my world." (Pg. 687 L. 424-425)

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"Exile! No! I want you dead. I want the world to see the punishment that treason brings." (pg 691 line 580-581)

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"I will be his avenger. For had not fate cut him down he might have produced a son, a brother to my children. I now will become that son, as though in truth I were, and I will hunt the killer down. Vegeance for Laius, son of Labdacus, descendant of great Cadmus and King Agenor." (pg 681, Line234-239)

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"A man got drunk and shouted to the world that I was not my father's son."(737-738)
"I listened. And I fled."(757)

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"Yes! Mock me for the skill that made me great." (Pg. 686 L. 420)

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"I was angry...I hit him back! Oh I hit him back! I knocked him out of the chariot...I beat him to death. I killed them all" (74-75)

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"I who came here, Oedipus, an ordinary simple man. I stopped the mouth of the sphinx, I did not need omens, I needed only my native wit. And you seek to overthrow me?" on lines 376-378

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"I must do or promise to do to save the city"(65)

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“I curse myself as well…if by any chance he proves to be an intimate of our house” (Lines 284-285)

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"...he tore the brooches from her robe and raised them and plunged them into the sockets of his eyes" (384-385)

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“Pride breeds the tyrant violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin—clawing up to the heights, headlong pride crashes down the abyss—sheer doom!” (Lines 963-967)

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"You are a wicked man. Your silence would anger a lifeless stone. Will nothing loosen your tongue, melt your heart, shake you out of this implacable silence" (306-309).

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"You blame me but you do not see yourself. In your anger you turn on me" (310-311).
(Teiresias said this to Oedipus)

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"You will regret repeating so foul a slander" (341)

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"'I half understand your meaning. Speak again.'  'I say you are the murderer of the man whose murderer you seek.' 'You will regret repeating so foul a slander'" (338-340).
Teiresias and Oedipus are speaking back and forth

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"Ha! Oh my wife, where are the oracles now? Why believe in the screams of whirling birds? The Delphic god had sworn that I would kill my father, but he is dead and in his grave! And here I stand, I never drew my sword. Perhaps they might argue that he died of grief for his long absent son." (pg 705 Oedipus part 2 lines 93-99)