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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.

Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
Author
Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Dream
Smoke
Traces
Past
Memory
Ripple
Never
Fame
Drift
Air
Fade
Men
Lies
Stream
Time
Memories
Asleep
Waken
Life
Lying
Fades
Ripples
Like
Desire
Streams
Inferno

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