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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Tacitus, c. 100
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