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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

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
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