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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Jacques Lacan
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