Wednesday, November 30, 2016
In You
Dante, Purgatorio 16.82-83 (tr. Thomas Okey):
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Therefore, if the world to-day goeth astray,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, I.4 (tr. Thomas P. Whitney):
in you is the cause, in you be it sought...
Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,
in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia...
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
