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View Quote How long in woman lasts the fire of love,If eye or touch do not relight it often.
View Quote I am he who held both the keys of the heart of Frederick, and who turned them, locking and unlocking so softly.
View Quote I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.
View Quote 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)
View Quote I looked, and I beheld the shade of himWho made through cowardice the great refusal.
View Quote 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.
View Quote I wept not, I within so turned to stone.
View Quote 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.
View Quote 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.
View Quote 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.
View Quote Justice of God, ah! who heaps up so manyNew toils and sufferings as I beheld?⁠And why doth our transgression waste us so?
View Quote Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.
View Quote Let us descend now unto greater woe;⁠Already sinks each star that was ascending⁠When I set out, and loitering is forbidden.
View Quote 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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