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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.

— Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
Che la diritta via era smarrita.

Original text (Italian)

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.

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She is the sum of nature's universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Purgatorio (1321)

I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

The Divine Comedy (1308)

Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

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