Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my… — 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 to mine, I have always loved it and done all I could to make myself loved by it.
In the original French
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.
Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791
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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
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.