A few words on Dante's Inferno

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Returning in despair to the dark valley, Dante sees a human form in the woods, which soon reveals itself to be the soul of the great Roman poet Virgil. Often, when someone loses the way in life, they don't realize that they are lost until they take a big look around to see where they are...
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Like in Dante's story, it is not always possible to turn around and go back the way one came, one must continue the journey and take the right path after they have done what they needed to do, and seen what they have needed to see. Some are fortunate, as Dante, to have a guide to tell them the right from the wrong...
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