I need help with an english-latin translation...please!! :s

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Kat
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I need help with an english-latin translation...please!! :s

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I was just wandering if anyone could help me translate a quote into latin

"Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life"

I've been trying for so long but i can never get it right :s
thank you so much[/b]

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"Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life"
Amoris voluptas momentum;
tristitia illius aetatem perfert.


Well, that's one way to say it ;)
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae

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