“How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
Source: Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
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Italian scholar and poet 1304–1374Related quotes
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