Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798), author and adventurer. He is best known for his memoirs, which are a most revealing record of 18th-century European society and simply as Casanova, "the world's greatest lover"."I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms." - Casanova
"Desire is only kept alive by being denied: enjoyment kills it, since one cannot desire what one has got." - Casanova
"If one tells a lie a sufficient number of times, one ends by believing it." - Casanova
"Man is free; but not unless he believes he is." - Casanova
"I don't conquer, I submit." - Casanova
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Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875), author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales.
A few of his well loved fairy tales are The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling and The Red Shoes. His fairy tales have been translated into over 150 languages and continue to be published in millions of copies throughout the world.
"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." - Andersen
"Where words fail, music speaks." - Andersen
“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.” - Andersen
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” - Andersen
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Émile François Zola (April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902), journalist and author, best known for his series of 20 novels referred to collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93) and the open letter J'Accuse written in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason."The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Émile Zola
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." - Émile Zola
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!" - Émile Zola
"Everything is only a dream." - Émile Zola
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