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Without hope we live in desire.

Without hope we live in desire.

Dante Alighieri
Desire, Without Hope
Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

...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.

Dante Alighieri
Stars, Moving, Desire
Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

Dante Alighieri
Light, Desire, Delight

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Dante Alighieri
Desire, Flight, Reason

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Dante Alighieri
Desire, Lost, Without Hope
Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Inferno”, p.34, Race Point Pub

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

Dante Alighieri
Stars, Moving, Desire
Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson (1980). “The divine comedy”

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri
Fate, Sorrow, Desire

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