“Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this way, and now hate that--but love, I think, is winning. I will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling.”
Book:Heroides and Amores
Quote by Ovid
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Heroides and Amores
Heroides and Amores are two collections of poems by the Roman poet Ovid. The Heroides consists of letters written by mythical heroines to their absent lovers, while the Amores focuses on the poet's own experiences of love and desire. more
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Source: The art of love, and other poems
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