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I can live neither with you, nor without you.

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Love One Liner Positive Want
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
All things change; nothing perishes.
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Change One Liner Perish
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Return Time Waves
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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Change Tomorrow
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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Hopeless Life Love Wretch
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Deep Delicate Inspirational Produce Rose Sharp
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Force Hollow Inspirational Persistence Stone Water
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
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Mind Peace Poetry
Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Concern Millionaire Promise
Love is a kind of warfare.
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Kind Love One Liner Warfare
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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Love Vanish
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

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