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“Its not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, co...”
“I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.”
“Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and hed start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had d...”
“...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is i...”
“Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.”
“Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there w...”
“There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.”
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and Im sorry, but theyve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as ...”
“We're our own heroes.”
“It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, c...”
“Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he‘d start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had ...”
