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Without hope we live in desire.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.
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He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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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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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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