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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Three: Part 1
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Book Three: Part 1
Leaving Madame de Vercellis' nearly as I went there, I returned to my old landlady, and remained there five or six weeks, in which time health, youth, and laziness often rendered my constitution importunate. I was uneasy, absent, and pensive; cried, sighed, desired a happiness I had no idea of, but whose privation, however, I felt. This situation cannot be described, and few men can even imagine it; because the greatest part have prevented this plentitude of life, at the same time tormenting and delightful, which, in the drunkenness of desire, ...
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