“The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance. I felt myself born for the fair sex, I have ever loved it dearly, and I have been loved by it as often and as much as I could.”

— Giacomo Casanova

Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)

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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798

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