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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670
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