
Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Part 3, Ch. 31
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Source: Letters of Swami Vivekananda
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.