Dante Alighieri Quotes About Desire
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Without hope we live in desire.
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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
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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.
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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
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