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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Welsh proverb

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Jacques Lacan

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor