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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.

Catullus

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 if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
CATULLUS

Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
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
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
CATULLUS

Feeling Hate Myself Query Question Torture
What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
CATULLUS

Lover Myself Running Water Women Writing
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
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CATULLUS

Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUS

Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUS

Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
But you shall not escape my iambics.
CATULLUS

Escape Yourself
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
CATULLUS

Hate Love Myself
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
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUS

Destruction Water Wine Yourself
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

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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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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