Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb