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Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the… — Dante Alighieri

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason.

In the original Italian

Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa… e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa com'alma razional sanza ragione.

Dante Alighieri
La Vita Nuova · 1294
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LoveKindnessGrace
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1294Middle Ages
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Dante Alighieri
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Current citation
Dante. Vita Nuova, translated by Mark Musa. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 16.
Original citation
Dante. La Vita Nuova [The New Life]. 1294, ch. 16.

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