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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Stendhal, 1822

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Jacques Lacan

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924