At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.


Dante Alighieri

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
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He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
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What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. [It., Cio ch'io ved...
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My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia ...
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The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]
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Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
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The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.
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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [It., Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.]
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! [It., O dignit...
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Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]
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Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings...
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Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]
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Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta c...
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Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme...
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From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
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It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.
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Do not be afraid; our fate
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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In His will is our peace.
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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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He listens well who takes notes.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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In His will is our peace.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.
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Follow your own star!
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There is no greater sorrow
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In misery.
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The experience of this sweet life.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
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A great flame follows a little spark.
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O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
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Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer wh...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Well do I see how the Eternal Ray, which, once seen, kindles love forevermore, already shines on you...
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Open your mind to what I shall explain, then close around it, for it is no learning to understand wh...
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Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
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There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--
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Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto
Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse;
Soli eravamo e ...
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Without Hope we live in desire.
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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let t...
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O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need ...
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Nature is the art of God
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Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta;...
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolu...
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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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 ...
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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
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And following its path, we took no care
To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far,
T...
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We were men once, though we've become trees
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
DANTE ALIGHIERI
The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
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So that the Universe felt love,
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been tu...
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,
DANTE ALIGHIERI
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things inn...
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go amon...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
It was the hour of morning,
when the sun mounts with those stars
that shone with it when G...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness;...
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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow s...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words
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But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for...
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From there we came outside and saw the stars
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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amo...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way w...
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In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first ...
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Ink to parchment, words to paper, glory to Beatrice.
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O anima cortese mantoana
Di cui la fama ancor nel mondo dura,
E durera quanto 'l moto lont...
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Dianzi, ne l’alba che procede al giorno,
quando l’anima tua dentro dormia
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