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 to mine, I have always loved it and done all I could to make myself loved by it.
Cultiver les plaisirs de mes sens fut dans toute ma vie me principale affaire; je n'en ai jamais eu de plus importante. Me sentant ne pour le sexe different du mien, je l'ai toujours amie, et je m'en suis fait amier tant que j'ai pu.
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Original Citation
Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.
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Current Citation
Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
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