I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope…

Tom Stoppard
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. ✨ Tom Stoppard (1998). The Invention of Love, p.27, Grove Press
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. ✨ Tom Stoppard (1998). The Invention of Love, p.27, Grove Press

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