Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

His long, thin shape and his little face like a wrinkled apple, his soft expression and slovenly gait, incited the children to make fun of him. (1.2.40)

What I had to fear while waiting to possess this beloved person was naturally, the anticipation. (5.1.31)

The course of my education was interrupted by an accident, the consequences of which have influenced the rest of my life. (1.1.10)

Thus, before my future career was decided, I wasted the most precious period of my life in foolishness. (1.3.1)

Full of desires of soon seeing my dear Mama again, I gave my imagination something of a rest, since the real happiness in store for me relieved me from the necessity of having to seek it in dreams....

I had therefore as much religion as was natural in a boy of my years, or rather more. (2.1.39)

I grew confused, stammered, and eventually said with a blush that it was Marion that gave it to me. (2.1.89)

After favouring my wishes for thirty years, for the next thirty fate opposed them. (7.1.3)