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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Stendhal, 1822

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Jacques Lacan

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975