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Dante Alighieri on life and death

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (1320), Inferno, Canto V, lines 121-123, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation (1867)

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