Dante Alighieri Quotes, Dream Quotes, Memories Quotes

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.

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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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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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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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These have not the hope to die.

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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

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