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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Welsh proverb

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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