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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Jacques Lacan

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972
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