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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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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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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
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
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Back Condition Constant Faults Help Hope Motivational One Liner Time Wallet
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
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
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
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
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
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
CATULLUS

Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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