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

Book Little Myself One Liner
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
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
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
CATULLUS

Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
CATULLUS

Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
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
But you shall not escape my iambics.
CATULLUS

Escape Yourself
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUS

Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
CATULLUS

Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS

Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUS

Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
CATULLUS

Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler

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

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