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Quote by Dante Alighieri

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

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Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet and a pioneer of the Renaissance, is hailed as the father of Italian literature. Born in 1265 and died on September 14, 1321, Dante is best known for his epic poem, 'The Divine Comedy,' which is not only a great literary work but also a profound religious and philosophical treatise. more

“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.”

Ifs Feels Whole Darkness Struggle Fate Depends Conscious Aspect Relation Absurd This Life Opposition Convince Perpetual Revolt Equilibrium

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”

Dream Sleep Consciousness Known Blood Truth Is Awake Proportion Disorder Imperfection Waking Good Sense Circulation Impurity Life Dream

Book:Liber CCCXXXIII [i.e. Trecentesimus Tricesimus Tertius]: The Book of Lies, which is Also Falsely Called, Breaks : the Wanderings Or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is Itself Untrue

Source: Liber CCCXXXIII [i.e. Trecentesimus Tricesimus Tertius]: The Book of Lies, which is Also Falsely Called, Breaks : the Wanderings Or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is Itself Untrue

“The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”

Mind Certain Limitation

Author:Aleister Crowley

“We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.”

Two Eye Faces Fighting Voice Her Eyes Coal Shipwreck

Author:Lauren Oliver

“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”

People Fall Falling In Love

Book:Bad Connections: A Novel

Source: Bad Connections: A Novel

“And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.”

Ifs Has Beens Used Lying Force Teacher Late Miracle Fingers Violent Stomach Survived Squeezing Vengeful