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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Welsh proverb

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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