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A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Jacques Lacan

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West
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