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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

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

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706
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