When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed… — Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

In the original Italian

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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