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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
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.]
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Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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
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
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
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
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
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

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