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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Three: Part 2

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

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Book Three: Part 2

Here I am then, at last, fixed at her house. It is not, however, from hence I date the happy part of my life, but it served to prepare it. Although this sensibility of heart, which makes us really enjoy each other, is the work of nature, and perhaps a production of organization, it calls for a situation to unfold itself. Without these occasional causes, a man born with fine feelings would feel nothing, and go out of the world without having known his existence. Such, nearly, had I been till then, and such had I perhaps always been, had I never ...

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