And he began: “What destiny or chance brings you down here before your dying day, and who points out the road by which you advance?” I said: “In the… - Dante Alighieri

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And he began: “What destiny or chance brings you down here before your dying day, and who points out the road by which you advance?”

I said: “In the pleasant life I lost my way before the fullness of my age had come. It was in a valley that I went astray.

Yesterday morning I was fleeing from that place when I turned back, and he came to me. And now along this path he leads me home.”

“Follow your star and you will certainly come to a glorious harbor, if it is true that in the sweet life I had power to see,” — from Canto XV