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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

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

—Jacques Lacan

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West
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