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“[T]hose who do not love [life] are unworthy of it.”

The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 10 Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/preface2.html (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.) Referenced

“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 7, p. 143
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“I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 10, p. 274
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“Learn from me that a wise man who has heard a criminal accusation related with so many absurd particulars ceases to be wise when he makes himself the echo of what he has heard, for if the accusation should turn out to be a calumny, he would himself become the accomplice of the slanderer.”

Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.”

Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova. ] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.”

Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1 (Venetian Years), chap. 14 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter14.html Referenced

“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
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“Man is free; but not unless he believes he is”

Giacomo Casanova

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The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), Preface, p. 1
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“If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 4, p. 94
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“This extremely interesting girl, after giving me a single glance from her beautiful eyes, stubbornly refused to look at me again. My vanity at once made me think that it was only so that I would be at full liberty to study her impeccable beauty. It was on this girl that I instantly set my sights, as if all Europe were only a seraglio provided for my pleasures.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 2, p. 19
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“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”

Giacomo Casanova

History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 11, chap. 4, p. 112