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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

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

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Jacques Lacan

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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