Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738