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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972
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