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—Mae West
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Sex 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. 1982No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborLove is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100