"[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]"
— Giacomo Casanova

January 1, 1970

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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1, Preface (I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.)