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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983