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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706
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