I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
CATULLUSI hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
More Catullus Quotes
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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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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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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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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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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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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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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