The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestThere is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975