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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
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
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
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
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
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
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.]
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Darkness Path Return Travel
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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