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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983