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In her autobiography, Eskenazi states that she did not work in “café amans” (a café where singers would improvise songs) or “café satans” (cabarets).
Rosa Eskenazi. 2009
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She died in 1549 before the days were finished: in 1558 Pierre Boaistuan published the Histoire des amans fortunez and in 1559 Claude Guiget the
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For love is a perpetual [5345] flux, angor animi, a warfare, militat omni amans, a grievous wound is love still, and
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Alciatus de upupa Embl. Animal immundum upupa stercora amans; ave hac nihil foedius, nihil libidinosius.
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Lib. de victimis: amans Deum, sublimia petit, sumptis alis et in coelum recte volat, relicta terra, cupidus aberrandi cum sole, luna, stellarumque sacra militia, ipso Deo duce.
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[5238] Pallidus omnis amans, color hic est aptus amanti, as the poet describes lovers: fecit amor maciem, love causeth leanness.
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Which I'm not going to write, because if I wrote anything ficcish I still owe people several installments of the senex amans series, and then there's the Probe fic I can't quite rid myself of, and ... safer to stick with the stuff they pay me for.
foloow-ups on var & sundry suricattus 2004
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Quisquis amans sequitur fugitivae gaudia formae, Fronde manus implet, baccas vel carpit amaras.
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Numquam amans sequi volo vices temporum bestiali more.
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* Quo redametur amans, et amor quem conserit, ipse est.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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