Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart,
seized this man for the fair form that was
taken from me, and the manner still hurts me.
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I came into a place void of all light,
which bellows like the sea in tempest,
when it is combated by warring winds.
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At once I understood,
and I was sure this was that sect of evil souls who were
hateful to God and to His enemies.
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I saw and I knew the soul of him,
who cowardly made the great refusal.
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Heaven, to keep its beauty,
cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them
for fear the wicked there might glory over them.
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This miserable state
is borne by the wretched souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
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Their sighs, lamentations and loud wailings
resounded through the starless air,
so that at first it made me weep;
Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,
words of pain, tones of anger,
voices shrill and faint, and beating hands,
all went to make a tumult that will whirl
forever through that turbid, timeless air,
like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.
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Here must all distrust be left behind;
all cowardice must be ended.
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Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
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And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from the sea to shore,
turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
from the book "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri