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Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...
one can no more be without the other
than the reasoning mind without its reason.

— Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova (1293)

Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...
e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa
com'alma razional sanza ragione.

Original text (French)

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own
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