A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822
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Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThere is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972