"Sonnet in full:"
— Luís de Camões
January 1, 1970
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As long as Fortune wanted me to keep on hoping for happiness I took pleasure in amorous thoughts and wrote down how they made me feel. But Love, afraid that what I write might serve free hearts as a warning, clouded my inspiration with torment to keep his deceits from coming to light. O you whom Love has made the slaves of various passions! When you read in one small book such varied cases know that they're pure truths, not tales, and that your own experience in love will lead you through my ver
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As long as Fortune wanted me to keep on hoping for happiness I took pleasure in amorous thoughts and wrote down how they made me feel. But Love, afraid that what I write might serve free hearts as a warning, clouded my inspiration with torment to keep his deceits from coming to light. O you whom Love has made the slaves of various passions! When you read in one small book such varied cases know that they're pure truths, not tales, and that your own experience in love will lead you through my ver