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Why Genius Needs Limits

Dante's secret about the human soul...

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Jun 12, 2025
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Why Genius Needs Limits

In the heart of the Inferno lies a tremendous secret. 

In Canto 26, Dante the Pilgrim and Virgil, his guide, arrive at the eighth ditch of the eighth circle of hell and observe those souls who engaged in fraudulent counsel. As in life they used their tongues to bring destruction, so in death they burn forever within tongues of fire.

Yet, Dante the Pilgrim…

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