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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Jacques Lacan