Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387