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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.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

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What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry pumice stone?

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