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"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way into eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!"
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
"If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens."
Quote by -Dante Alighieri
“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. ”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
“My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...”
Quote by -Mary Oliver
"After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?"
Quote by -Stendhal
"I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar."
Quote by -Stendhal
"An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."
Quote by -Stendhal
"The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America."
Quote by -Stendhal
"What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion."
Quote by -Stendhal
"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought."
Quote by -Stendhal
"The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage."
Quote by -Stendhal