The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 17: Return to Italy
Casanova
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Casanova · 4 chapters
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I have never liked eating by myself, and thus I have never turned hermit, though I once thought of turning monk; but a monk without renouncing all the pleasures of life lives well in a kind of holy idleness.
The thought of Veronique troubled me, as I knew I was taken with her, and what I had to dread was a calculated resistance.
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