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“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
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“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
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“The world’s delight is a brief dream.”
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“. . . The senses reign, and reason now is dead;
from one pleasing desire comes another.
Virtue, honor, beauty, gracious bearing,
sweet words have caught me in her lovely branches
in which my heart is tenderly entangled.
In thirteen twenty-seven, and precisely
at the first hour of the sixth of April
I entered the labyrinth, and I see no way out.”
― Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
from one pleasing desire comes another.
Virtue, honor, beauty, gracious bearing,
sweet words have caught me in her lovely branches
in which my heart is tenderly entangled.
In thirteen twenty-seven, and precisely
at the first hour of the sixth of April
I entered the labyrinth, and I see no way out.”
― Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”
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