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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#comes #dark #days #either #everything

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#am #been #begin #confession #course

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#arises #blockhead #blood #born #company

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#brink #errors #falling #great #great art

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#believe #christian #concern #discussion #faith

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#been #fortune #friends #give #good

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#characteristics #fellows #fools #good #good sense

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#attained #begin #circumstance #commence #earliest

All I want to do is sing on other people's records. ↗

— Neko Case

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