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Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..."

More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his "maman" and perennial comforter -

"Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed an incest, and two or three times, pressing her eagerly in my arms, I deluged her bosom with my tears. On her part, as she had never sought pleasure, she had not the stings of remorse...")

Volumes 1 and 2 of this book can be found here>
Volumes 3 and 4 of this book can be found here

(Introduction by Martin Geeson)

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