In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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