“Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.”
Houses Under the Sea (2007)
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“He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.”
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“But if a man shall hope in aught he does
To escape the eyes of god, he makes an error.”
Olympian 1, line 63; page 6
Olympian Odes (476 BC)

Source: 1840s, Works of Love (1847), p. 296

As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)