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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
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 hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
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
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
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
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

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