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Beauty awakens the soul to act.

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

So what brings you to this killing pickle?

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

They yearn for what they fear for.

My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love ... and, mirror-like ... each soul reflects the other.

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.

The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.

I hope for your sake you've got something inside that big body of yours!

I am the guardian, the shepherd of sins

I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

Love insists the loved loves back

up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land,

So bitter is it, death is little more;

The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection.

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

How come I never meet any nice girls?

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.

toward the Mount.4

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.

All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women.

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Without Hope we live in desire.

i did not die, yet nothing of life remained.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes.

And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

On march the banners of the King of Hell.

I cannot well repeat how there I entered,

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

Nature is the art of God.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts ... Beyond the range of human intellect.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.

I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...

Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.

Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!

Neither Creator nor creature ever,
Son, " he began, "was destitute of love
Natural or spiritual; and thou knowest it.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

And what will bow your shoulders down
will be the vicious and worthless company
with whom you will fall into this abyss.

It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.

Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,
that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings.

As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.

True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

I love to doubt as well as know.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge ...

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

I by not doing, not by doing, lost

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Remember tonight ... for it is the beginning of always

From there we came outside and saw the stars

Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first

And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.