The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)
Orpheus & Eurydice (1991)
Art Malik: Orpheus
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Quotes
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Persephone : Everything must die, Orpheus, the people we love most have to die, even the rocks, the earth itself is eaten away by time. Everything must die, Orpheus.
Orpheus : [stops playing his flute] To live again!
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Orpheus : [to Eurydice] I am Orpheus. Or... pheus. I have sung storms to sleep. I have made the clashing rocks move away from our ship. I have been to the end of the world and seen things more terrible, more beautiful than I thought could be. But you...
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Hades : Who comes uninvited to my kingdom?
Orpheus : I am Orpheus, king of Thrace, son of Calliope.
Hades : And what does King Orpheus seek from Hades?
Orpheus : The soul now before you in judgement. Eurydice, my wife.
Hades : No soul returns from my kingdom.
Orpheus : Love is stronger than death.
Hades : [laughs] Nothing is stronger than death, little musician.
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Orpheus : My lyre must always play. For without music we are nothing. We knead the shapes out of nothing. Tunes out of silence, love out of hate. Music that lasts forever.