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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

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476