casanova

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms_ (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all.

He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than usual. The girls could see he was gloriously drunk. __ell, Ragna, why do you think I come here so often?_ asked Rolandsen. ____e no idea,_ Ragna answered. __ou must think I__ sent by old Laban.__he girls giggled. __hen he says Laban he really means Adam._____e come to save you,_ said Rolandsen. __ou have to beware of the fishermen around here, they__e out-and-out seducers!___here__ no greater seducer than you,_ said another girl. __ou__e got two kids already. You ought to be ashamed of yourself._ __ow can you talk like that, Nicoline? You__e always been a thorn in my flesh and you__l be the death of me, you know damned well. But as for you, Ragna, I__ going to save your soul wether you like it or not!