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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Jacques Lacan

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975
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