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61 " They yearn for what they fear for. "
― Dante Alighieri , Inferno
62 " Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge. "
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy
63 " Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. "
64 " The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. "
65 " Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people "
66 " The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. "
67 " From there we came outside and saw the stars "
68 " Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. "
69 " For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. "
70 " As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force. "
71 " I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath "
72 " Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra, "
― Dante Alighieri , Vita Nuova
73 " He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "
74 " In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! "
75 " At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. "
76 " 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. "
― Dante Alighieri , Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
77 " One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. "
78 " Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars. "
79 " As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. "
80 " The poets leave hell and again behold the stars. "