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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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
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