"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."

Crisp, Quentin on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman."

Harrison, Jane on women   

"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."

Swift, Jonathan on love
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"Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."

Beauvoir, Simone De on sex
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"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

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"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty."

Radcliffe, Timothy on celibacy
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on love
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"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow."

Proverb on love
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"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Ustinov, Peter on sex
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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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