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Giacomo Casanova Quotes

Giacomo Casanova quotes

Italian Celebrity, Writer April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798

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I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. 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. Giacomo Casanova
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease..."
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. Giacomo Casanova
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. Giacomo Casanova
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved. Giacomo Casanova
I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing. Giacomo Casanova
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. Giacomo Casanova
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. Giacomo Casanova
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved..."
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better. Giacomo Casanova
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "Marriage is the tomb of love."
Marriage is the tomb of love. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into..."
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "Love is three quarters curiosity."
Love is three quarters curiosity. Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova quote: "We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same..."
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner. Giacomo Casanova

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