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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

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

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738