I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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More Catullus Quotes
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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But you shall not escape my iambics.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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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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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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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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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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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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