“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.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
― The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
“Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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