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Quotes

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Welsh proverb

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

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

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Stendhal, 1822