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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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Darkness Path Return Travel
But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Fond Promise Stream Vow Woman
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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Admire Herself Man Myself Relationship Side Time
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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Lover Myself Running Water Women Writing

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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