← Antigone, that's the skinny little girl sitting over there, who's saying nothing. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← Fuck Boudousse, half an hour ago I didn't think we'd be sitting here laughing. 🔊✎
← It's easy to say no, even if you're going to die. You just sit there and wait. You wait to live, you even wait for them to come and kill you. It's cowardly. It's just something people have made up. 🔊✎
← (He sits there dreaming for a while, his head in his hands, his elbows on his knees. We hear him murmur.) ✎
← It was horrible. Your father was sitting at his desk holding his head, bleeding from the nose and crying. 🔊✎
← You'll see, it will become a simple, hard little thing that you can nibble on as you sit in the sun. They'll tell you the opposite because they need your strength and swiftness. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me either when I give my next speech in front of Eteocles' tomb. It won't be true. Nothing is true except the things you don't say... 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎