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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon
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In His will, our peace.
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The well heeded well heard.
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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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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
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I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!
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They yearn for what they fear for.
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book if not all of them, at the least their substance.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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