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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Welsh proverb

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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