- Lucifer: Even the purist souls can be corrupted. Dante is not the man you once knew.
- Beatrice: You did this to him. You corrupted his heart.
- Lucifer: I've had no need to influence humanity for many millennium my dear. I simply introduced sin. Man is the one who has spread it like a disease; cultivating it, empowering it.
- Beatrice: It is not our fault, none of it. Man is good.
- Lucifer: No, you don't understand. The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons.
- Dante: We were together neither in hell nor in paradise, neither damned nor saved, I did not die, and I did not live.
- Dante: Why, God? Why are you doing this?
- Virgil: It is not the Lord that brought you to this fate, Dante.
- Dante: What are you, shade or living man?
- Virgil: Not man, though once I was. I lived under Augustus in the time of the false and lying gods.
- Dante: Are you not Virgil, glory of the poets, he who wrote the Aeneid, the treasure of Rome?
- Virgil: Why do you seek such woe, Dante?
- Dante: I seek only my beloved Beatrice and nothing more, but I cannot open these accursed gates!
- Virgil: Have you lost all faith in God, O man? Has the way been so obscured?