Catullus - Love Quotes

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I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it? I don't know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.

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Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet.

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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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It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. It is difficult; but you should accomplish it, one way or another.

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And let her not look to find my love, as before; my love, which by her fault has dropped like a flower on the meadow's edge, when it has been touched by the plow passing by.

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I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.

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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and let us reckon all the murmurs of more censorious old men as worth one farthing. Suns can set and come again: for us, when once our brief light has set, one everlasting night is to be slept.

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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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Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of perpetual night. Give me a thousand kisses.

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I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.

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To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done.

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