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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

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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
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
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
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
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
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
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
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
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

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