Dante Alighieri - Life Quotes

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He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.

Dante Alighieri
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

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In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct.

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In that book which is
My memory...
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life.

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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.

Dante Alighieri
In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]."

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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood.

Dante Alighieri