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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Nine: Part 2
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Book Nine: Part 2
Not having it in my power to taste in all its plenitude the charms of that intimate connexion, of which I felt the want, I sought for substitutes, which did not fill up the void, yet they made it less sensible. Not having a friend entirely devoted to me, I wanted others, whose impulse should have overcome my indolence; for this reason I cultivated and strengthened my connexions with Diderot and the Abbe de Condillac, formed with Grimm a new one still more intimate, till at length, by the unfortunate discourse, of which I have related some ...
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