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The ninth monologue of Samuel Beckett’s 1954 Texts for Nothing offers a literal translation of the four concluding words of Dante's Inferno: "and see the stars again" (‘a riveder le stelle') They are spoken by a tramp-like waif as he contemplates death:-
"There’s a way out there, there’s a way out somewhere, the rest would come, the other words, sooner or later, and the power to get there, and the way to get there, and pass out, and see the beauties of the skies, and see the stars again."
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