“I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived.”

—  Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere

Sarò qual fui, vivrò com'io son visso.
Canzone 145, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life

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