This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of. – Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes