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"S'i' credesse che mia risposta fosse / a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, / questa fiamma staria sanza più scosse;
"If I believed that my reply were made /
To one who to the world would e'er return, /
This flame without more flickering would stand still;
ma però che già mai di questo fondo / non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, / sanza tema d'infamia ti rispondo"
But inasmuch as never from this depth /
Did any one return, if I hear true, /
Without the fear of infamy I answer"
Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, Inferno, Canto XXVII, 61—66
The Loneliest Village in France
The cruellest lies are often told in silence
Life was a prison in which he wove straw to keep busy and forget
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; / The worlds revolve like ancient women / Gathering fuel in vacant lots
R L Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
Portugal and The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Other stories
T S Eliot, Preludes
