Quotes About Purgatorio

La mayoría de los tomadores de mescalina experimentan únicamente la parte celestial de la esquizofrenia. La droga sólo procura infierno y purgatorio a quienes han padecido recientemente una ictericia o son víctimas de depresiones periódicas o ansiedad crónica.

Únicamente podéis comprender a alguien ajeno a vosotros en la medida en que se humanice. La falta de universalidad de la Inteligencia encerrada en las normas de una especie constituye un curioso purgatorio con la muralla ubicada en el infinito.

He is maintaining substantially the same theory as that of Purgatorio XVIII: "Then, even as fire moves upward by reason of its form, whose nature it is to ascend, there where it endures longest in its material; so the enamoured mind falls to desire, which is a spiritual movement, and never rests until the object of its love makes it rejoice".

Serafina may think I'm a crazy person, but I'm not. She has her scars, too—and not only the ones I saw when she turned her head and her hair fell aside. We are both living out our lives in a Purgatorio. The difference? I arrived from the Paradiso, once young and married and so in love. But Serafina, she who was born alone in a fever dream of fire? She whose very skin is a tapestry of loss? Serafina, of course, arrived from the Inferno.