Sex is engaging in the first rounds. What sustains interest in the long run is political power.

Notes from Wikiquote

"Suicide of Jiang Qing, Mao's Widow, Is Reported" in The New York Times (5 June 1991)

Speech at the Reception for the Representatives of the Beijing Workers Propaganda Team and the People's Liberation Army (1968)

Talk at the Peking Forum on Literature and Art (1967)

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