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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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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
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
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
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
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
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
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
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
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
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
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
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

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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