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

—  Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
LXXXV, lines 1–2
Carmina

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