Inferno quotes
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How long in woman lasts the fire of love,If eye or touch do not relight it often.
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I am he who held both the keys of the heart of Frederick, and who turned them, locking and unlocking so softly.
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I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.
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I cannot well repeat how there I entered,So full was I of slumber at the momentIn which I had abandoned the true way.(tr. Longfellow)
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I looked, and I beheld the shade of himWho made through cowardice the great refusal.
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I understood that unto such a tormentThe carnal malefactors were condemned,Who reason subjugate to appetite.And as the wings of starlings bear them onIn the cold season in large band and full,So doth that blast the spirits maledict;It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them;No hope doth comfort them forevermore,Not of repose, but even of lesser pain.
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I wept not, I within so turned to stone.
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If I thought my answer were to onewho would ever return to the world,this flame should stay without another movement; but since noneever returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true,I answer thee without fear of infamy.
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If thou art, Reader, slow now to believeWhat I shall say, it will no marvel be,For I who saw it hardly can admit it.
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It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their heart the day they have bidden dear friends farewell and pierces the new traveller with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day.
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Justice of God, ah! who heaps up so manyNew toils and sufferings as I beheld?And why doth our transgression waste us so?
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Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.
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Let us descend now unto greater woe;Already sinks each star that was ascendingWhen I set out, and loitering is forbidden.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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