Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan
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Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972The 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, 1978One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983