The Confessions (Unabridged)

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4. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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4. [ 1719 to 1723 ]
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4. The life which I led at Bossey suited me so well that…
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4. It is now nearly fifty years since this incident…
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4. After my return to Geneva, I lived for two or three…
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4. [ 1723 to 1728 ]
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4. The next day, finding the opportunity favourable…
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4. I should never finish these details if I were to follow…
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4. Book Two
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4. She had been six years in Annecy when I arrived…
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4. My father was not only a man of honour, he was…
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4. I had some letters. I presented them, and was…
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4. A little, old, but somewhat venerable priest held…
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4. The first thing I did was to satisfy my curiosity…
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4. For the two next days it was in vain that I looked out…
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4. I believe that from that time I suffered from the…
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4. Book Three
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4. As no one had taken much trouble to find out my…
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4. This was the period of my life when, without…
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4. [ 1731 to 1732 ]
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4. The moment of our first meeting was the only really…
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4. The reason of the judgements passed upon me…
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4. At the seminary there was a confounded Lazarist…
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4. I lived at Annecy for nearly a year without the least…
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4. Mamma did what I should have done in her place…
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4. Book Four
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4. The day passed in this manner in the most…
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4. [ 1732 ]
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4. Next day, one of the musicians, named Lutold…
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4. We commenced our journey with the Canton of…
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4. Thus I was greatly flattered, but little benefited.
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4. During this journey I met with an adventure…
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4. I remained a week or so longer at Lyons…
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4. Book Five
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4. It will be seen that, with little time to spare…
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4. Living in this manner, I soon became entirely…
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4. The Comtesse de Menthon, the mother of one of…
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4. The day, more dreaded than wished for, at length…
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4. Thus a companionship was established between us…
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4. Convinced that I should never succeed in saving…
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4. It is from this period that I date my acquaintance…
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4. In this manner I passed two or three years…
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4. Book Six
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4. Even had no Christian morality existed, I believe she…
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4. In these trifling details, which afford me delight…
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4. I returned to my books, but my afternoon…
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4. [ 1737 to 1741 ]
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4. She at last succeeded, with some difficulty…
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4. I was so changed, and my sensuality, which had…
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4. If souls, when freed from their earthly bonds…
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4. I possessed almost sufficient knowledge for a tutor…
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4. Book Seven
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4. [ 1742 ]
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4. I was deeply grieved at my own dullness…
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4. [ 1743 to 1744 ]
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4. M. de Montaigu, completely under the control of…
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4. The Marquis de l'Hôpital, as was proper, thanked…
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4. I must not leave Venice without saying a few words…
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4. In the evening, we escorted her back to her…
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4. The report of my story had preceded me…
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4. We had a new landlady, who came from Orleans.
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4. [ 1745 to 1747 ]
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4. [ 1747 to 1749 ]
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4. Book Eight
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4. [ 1750 to 1752 ]
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4. I have already mentioned, in the first part of this…
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4. Shortly afterwards, I had another opponent…
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4. This adventure, nevertheless, made a considerable…
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4. [ 1752 ]
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4. [ 1753 ]
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4. As for the pecuniary profits of this work…
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4. [ 1754 to 1756 ]
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4. After four months' stay at Geneva, I returned to…
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4. Book Nine
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4. Another undertaking, much of the same nature…
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4. I have always considered the day which united me…
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4. I judged that the motive of all this was no other…
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4. The relinquishment of this work left me for some…
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4. All these distractions ought to have cured me…
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4. [ 1757 ]
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4. Madame la Comtesse d'Houdetot was approaching…
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4. It is nearly a league from the Hermitage to…
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4. Thérèse had the discretion to say nothing to me…
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4. I was tenderly attached to Diderot, I esteemed him…
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4. While I was in Paris, Saint-Lambert arrived on leave.
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4. It is true that, more or less, he was arrogant with…
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4. I expected that Grimm, confused by my…
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4. It was about this time that I at last received…
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4. After long waiting, in a state of cruel anxiety…
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4. Book Ten
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4. I felt the first effects of this system through the…
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4. There is nothing in this world but good and bad…
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4. [ 1759 ]
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4. The recollection of Carrion reminds me of one of…
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4. The proposal was not made at a favourable…
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4. I was terribly afraid of Madame de Luxembourg.
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4. In regard to her manuscript, I had another idea…
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4. [ 1760 ]
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4. I spared no pains to arouse the zeal and compassion…
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4. Book Eleven
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4. This year [ 1761 ] filled to the brim the cup of the…
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4. It had been one of my misfortunes to be always…
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4. Although my acquaintance with M. and Madame…
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4. I had lived at Montmorency for more than four years…
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4. [ 1762 ]
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4. The publication of this book did not take place with…
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4. A few days afterwards, M. le Maréchal received…
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4. Nothing further remained for me to do, except to…
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4. Book Twelve
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4. I must speak without reserve. I have never…
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4. Shortly after my establishment at Motiers-Travers…
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4. [ 1763 ]
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4. [ 1764 ]
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4. At the time of my greatest intimacy with him…
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4. [ 1765 ]
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4. Another thing that caused me great pleasure…
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4. At midnight, I heard a loud noise in the gallery…
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4. Accordingly, I in a measure took leave of my…
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4. But, whatever they may believe or say, I will none…
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4. Tormented, buffeted by storms of every kind…
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