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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Welsh proverb

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978
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