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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
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Dante Alighieri |
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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me weep: tongues confused, a language strained in anguish with cadences of anger, shrill outcries and raucous groans that joined with sounds of hands, raising a whirling storm that turns itself forever through that air of endless black, like grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows. And I, in the midst of ..
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inspiring
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Dante Alighieri |
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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
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Dante Alighieri |
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007d196
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Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
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Dante Alighieri |
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a34d1c6
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per piu fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi bacio tutto tremante. Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse: Quel giorno piu non vi leggemmo avante." ""W..
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l-inferno
italian
italy
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Dante Alighieri |
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer.
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wandering
dante-alighieri
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Dante Alighieri |
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Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death.
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Dante Alighieri |
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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
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Dante Alighieri |
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The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
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Dante Alighieri |
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I found myself within a forest dark,
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Dante Alighieri |
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
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Dante Alighieri |
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530d143
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,
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fate
sorrow
love
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Dante Alighieri |
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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responsibility
purpose
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Dante Alighieri |
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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poetry
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Dante Alighieri |
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
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Dante Alighieri |
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b96d9d7
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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Dante Alighieri |
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7e57164
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We were men once, though we've become trees
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Dante Alighieri |
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7bdded7
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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
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Dante Alighieri |
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6a096df
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
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Dante Alighieri |
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87b8f26
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Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
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passion
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Dante Alighieri |
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all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
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Dante Alighieri |
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more...
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Dante Alighieri |
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Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power, supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.
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stanley-lombardo-translation
inferno
hell
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Dante Alighieri |
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Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
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Dante Alighieri |
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563e4fe
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And following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far, Through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.
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Dante Alighieri |
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67d3a3b
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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Dante Alighieri |
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b219026
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This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
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Dante Alighieri |
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
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canto-xii
inferno
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Dante Alighieri |
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2308aa5
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The well heeded well heard.
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Dante Alighieri |
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67ac8b8
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For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.
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Dante Alighieri |
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.
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Dante Alighieri |
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912ae19
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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Dante Alighieri |
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
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necessity
pleasure
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Dante Alighieri |
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06fbee0
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O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it! I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: how substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light.
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theophany
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Dante Alighieri |
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11ac016
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way into eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.
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Dante Alighieri |
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3b37a17
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A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
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Dante Alighieri |
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a845d5f
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This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.
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Dante Alighieri |
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d4e1298
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My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.
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Dante Alighieri |
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855c32d
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There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--
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inferno
mistakes
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