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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book One: Part 3

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book One: Part 3

I belonged in a manner to each of these people, and so entirely, that with either of them I never thought of the other. But as to the rest, no resemblance in what they made me feel for them. I could have passed all my days with Mlle. de Vulson without a thought of leaving her; but on seeing her, my joy was calm, and did not reach emotion. I was particularly fond of her in a great company; her pleasantries, her ogling, even jealousy attached me to her: I triumphed with pride at a preference to great rivals she seemed to me to use ill. I was tortured, ...

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