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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
“Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!” 310”
― The Poetry of Petrarch
― The Poetry of Petrarch
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
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“Books have led some to learning and others to madness.”
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“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
― Canzoniere: Selected Poems
― Canzoniere: Selected Poems
“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”
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her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”
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