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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Welsh proverb

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982
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