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Quotes

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Jacques Lacan

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975