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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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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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Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
CATULLUS

Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
CATULLUS

Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
CATULLUS

Book Little Myself One Liner
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUS

Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
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.
CATULLUS

Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
CATULLUS

Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
CATULLUS

Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
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.]
CATULLUS

Darkness Path Return Travel
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
CATULLUS

Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
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
CATULLUS

Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship

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