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Our third installment of Casanova’s preface to his Memoirs.
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The readers of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
How many changes arise from such an independent mode of life!
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
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Yes, life can seem rather random and fortune fickle. Whether this is God’s mysterious way or just pure randomness and chance, I suppose we will never know for sure, save for faith.
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The readers of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
How many changes arise from such an independent mode of life!
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
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Yes, life can seem rather random and fortune fickle. Whether this is God’s mysterious way or just pure randomness and chance, I suppose we will never know for sure, save for faith.
