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“The Inferno is not a presumptuous outline of what lies in store for adulterers, loan sharks, con artists, assassins, and traitors. It is a profound analysis of what sin actually does to the human soul. We need not wait for entrance into hell for the punishment to begin. It begins with the sin; in fact, it is the sin, setting its roots down into the soul, deforming it, and draining it of health. Dante never merely shows us that a thing is evil. He shows us in scenes of great dramatic power what the evil is and what it does, both to the doer and to the human community.”
― Paul Pearson, Spiritual Direction From Dante: Avoiding the Inferno

“He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead” (15 November).”
― Paul Pearson, Spiritual Direction From Dante: Avoiding the Inferno