Confessions, volumes 5 and 6

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“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…”

Much of the liaison of the youthful Jean-Jacques: here instigated into a surprisingly conceded maturity through his “maman” and unfailing consoler.

“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…”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, author, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy impelled the Enlightenment in France and all over Europe, and such elements of the French Revolution and the total advancement of prevailing political and instructive thinking.

His novel Emile, or On Education is a dissertation on the edification of the overall man for nationality. His romantic novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of significance to the occurrence of pre-romanticism and romanticism in creative writing. His autobiographical books, his Confessions, which inducted the contemporary autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker which epitomized the later 18th century movement called as the Age of Sensibility, and brought forward a better emphasis on partisanship and solipsism that followed exemplified contemporary authorship. His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are keystones in contemporary political and social concept.
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