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I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 11, chap. 4, p. 112
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Memoirs of Jacques Casanova at the University of Adelaide
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Brief biography at Kirjasto (Pegasos)
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Casanova Research pages at Dickinson College
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Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.
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Last words, according to his friend the Prince de Ligne (Mémoires et mélanges historiques et littéraires, book IV, p. 42, translated for instance in: The Freeman, p. 224)
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
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Notes on editions of the Histoire de ma vie
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Quotes and Images at Project Gutenberg
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