# La Vita Nuova

- Author: [Dante Alighieri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova

## Quotes

> In that book which is
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> My memory...
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> On the first page
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> That is the chapter when
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> I first met you
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> Appear the words...
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> Here begins a new life.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/in-that-book.md)

> Love hath so long possessed me for his own
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> And made his lordship so familiar.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/love-hath-so-long.md)

> She is the sum of nature's universe.
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> To her perfection all of beauty tends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/she-is-the.md)

> In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil.
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> He woke her then and trembling and obedient
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> She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
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> Weeping I saw him then depart from me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/in-his-arms.md)

> Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...
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> one can no more be without the other
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> than the reasoning mind without its reason.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/love-and-the.md)

> Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/behold-a-god.md)