evening

And as soon as the curtain goes up, she feels that she is moving away at breakneck speed from her sister Ismene, who's chatting and laughing with a young man, from all of us, who are sitting here safely watching her, from all of us who don't have to die this evening. 🔊

Sometimes, in the evening, he is tired, and he wonders if it isn't pointless to try and govern men. 🔊

Oh! my darling, I was so stupid! A whole evening wasted. A whole beautiful evening. 🔊

We'll have other evenings, Antigone. 🔊

Oh! Haemon, you did love me, you're quite sure you did love me, that evening? 🔊

What evening? 🔊

That's how I feel. And I wanted to say to you I would have been so proud to be your woman, really be your woman that you could reach out and touch when you sat down in the evening, without even thinking, the way you'd touch something that belonged to you. 🔊

First of all, I'm not tender-hearted but I'm kind of fussy: I like things to be clean and neat. You think this doesn't disgust me as much as you, this piece of stinking meat we've left out in the sun? In the evening, when we get the sea breeze, you can smell it even in the palace. It turns my stomach. But all the same, I don't close the window. 🔊

You'll learn, you as well, too late, life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, it's a tool that sits comfortably in your hand, it's a bench in front of your house where you rest in the evening. You'll despise me again, but discovering that, you'll see, is the silver lining of getting old; life is perhaps all the same just happiness. 🔊

That strength and that courage, that god who lifted me in his arms and saved me from monsters and shadows, was that you? That comforting smell in the evening, under the lamp, when you showed me books in your study, do you think that was you? 🔊

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