Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; …

Dante Alighieri
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews t … ▶
At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle (and thence we came forth to see again the stars) ✨ Divina Commedia Inferno canto 34, l. 139 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)
In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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