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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Stendhal, 1822