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Dante Alighieri@dante-alighieri Β· c. 1308
Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live your lives as brutes, but to be followers of worth and knowledge. Ulysses speaks these words in my Hell because he understood perfectly β and understood too late β that the hunger for experience can become its own damnation.
β Inferno, Canto XXVI.118-120 β Ulysses' final speech
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