Status Updates From Purgatorio (Bantam Classics)

Hiromu Arakawa read Dante's Divine Comedy and said, "ok cool but what if it were an anime"

“how, when the strands of mist, humid and dense, began dispersing, the sun's disk dimly glimmered through

Measuring my steps to the trusted steps of my master, I came out of that haze”

“The celestial spheres, forming our tendencies, do incline us to various sensuous and sensual activities, but we are not forced to follow our appetites, since we have our will to direct our appetites. In Platonic (and Aristotelian) terms, our sensitive soul, which responds to such stimuli, is (or should be) governed by our rational soul.”

“the simple infant soul that has no knowledge but, moved by a joyous maker, gladly turns to what delights it.

'At first it tastes the savor of a trifling good It is beguiled by that and follows in pursuit if guide or rein do not deflect its love.

"Therefore, there was need that laws be set to act as curbs, need for a ruler to discern at least the tower above the one true city.”

“you have free will. Should it bear the strain in its first struggles with the heavens, then, rightly nurtured, it will conquer all.”

“And he to me: 'Because you still have your mind fixed on earthly things, you harvest darkness from the light itself.

'That infinite and ineffable Good, which dwells on high, speeds toward love as a ray of sunlight to a shining body.”

“Because your appetites are fixed on things that, divided, lessen each one's share, envy's bellows pushes breath into your sighs.

'But if love for the highest sphere could turn your longings toward heavenly things, then fear of sharing would pass from your hearts.

'For there above, when more souls speak of ours, the more of goodness each one owns, the more of love is burning in that cloister?'”

“'My blood was so consumed by envy that, had I seen a man take joy in life, you would have seen my skin turn livid.”